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Numbers 21:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Numbers 21:8-10
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.[a]
The Journey to Moab
10 And the people of Israel set out, and encamped in Oboth.
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- 21.4-9 The bronze serpent may have been the standard or symbol of the tribe of Levi, to which Moses and Aaron belonged. In Jn 3.14 it becomes a type of the saving cross of Christ.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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