8. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake image and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will recover.”
9. So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. Whenever someone was bitten, and he looked at the bronze snake, he recovered.
10. The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
11. They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.
12. From there they went and camped at Zered Valley.
13. They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites.
14. Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Lord’s Wars:Waheb in Suphahand the ravines of the Arnon,
15. even the slopes of the ravinesthat extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.
16. From there they went to Beer, the well the Lord told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.”
17. Then Israel sang this song:Spring up, well — sing to it!