6. So the Lord sent among the people seraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of the Israelites died.
7. Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining against the Lord and you. Pray to the Lord to take the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people,
8. and the Lord said to Moses: Make a seraph and mount it on a pole, and everyone who has been bitten will look at it and recover.
9. Accordingly Moses made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever the serpent bit someone, the person looked at the bronze serpent and recovered.
10. The Israelites moved on and encamped in Oboth.
11. Then they moved on from Oboth and encamped in Iye-abarim in the wilderness facing Moab on the east.
12. Moving on from there, they encamped in the Wadi Zered.
13. Moving on from there, they encamped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorites; for the Arnon forms Moab’s boundary, between Moab and the Amorites.
14. Hence it is said in the “Book of the Wars of the Lord”:“Waheb in Suphah and the wadies,
15. Arnon and the wadi gorgesThat reach back toward the site of Arand lean against the border of Moab.”
16. From there they went to Beer, which is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people together so that I may give them water.
17. Then Israel sang this song:Spring up, O well!—so sing to it—
18. The well that the princes sank,that the nobles of the people dug,With their scepters and their staffs—from the wilderness, a gift.