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For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inexorable want should come, while to these it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.
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For when the terrible rage of wild beasts came upon thy people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, thy wrath did not continue to the end;
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they were troubled for a little while as a warning, and received a token of deliverance to remind them of thy law's command.
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For he who turned toward it was saved, not by what he saw, but by thee, the Savior of all.
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And by this also thou didst convince our enemies that it is thou who deliverest from every evil.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.