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Numbers 21:9-15 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.”

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