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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.
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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.
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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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By doing this, you also convinced our enemies that you are the one who rescues people from every evil.
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Our enemies died from the bites of locusts and flies; no way was found to cure them, because they deserved to be punished by such creatures.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.