Numbers 21:7-14

⁷The people went to see Moses and told him, “We were wrong to make complaints against the Lord and against you. Please pray to the Lord to get rid of the snakes from us.” Moses prayed to the Lord on their behalf.

⁸The Lord told Moses, “Make a model of a snake and put it on a pole. When anyone who has been bitten looks at it, they will live.”

⁹Moses made a snake out of bronze and put it on a pole. Those who looked at it did live.

¹⁰The Israelites left and camped at Oboth.

¹¹Then they moved on from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the desert on the east side of Moab.

¹²They left there and camped in the Valley of Zered.

¹³Then they moved on from there and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the desert near Amorite territory. The Arnon River is the border between the Moab and the Amorites.

¹⁴That's why the Book of the Wars of the Lord refers to “the town of Waheb in Suphah and the canyon of the Arnon,