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Numbers 21:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Numbers 21:5-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”(A) 6 Then the Lord sent poisonous[a] serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many Israelites died.(B) 7 The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord to take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.(C)
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