Numbers 21:9
Good News Translation
9 (A)So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who had been bitten would look at the bronze snake and be healed.
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Wisdom 16:5-7
Good News Translation
5 (A)When terrible, fierce snakes attacked your people and were killing them with their poison, you did not remain angry long enough to destroy your people. 6 This trouble lasted for only a little while, as a warning. Then you gave them a healing symbol, the bronze snake, to remind them of what your Law requires. 7 If a person looked at that symbol, he was cured of the snakebite—not by what he saw, but by you, the savior of all mankind.
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