6. The Lord sent venomous snakes amongst the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
7. The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
8. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
9. Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.
10. The children of Israel travelled, and encamped in Oboth.
11. They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, towards the sunrise.
12. From there they travelled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
13. From there they travelled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14. Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the Lord, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
15. the slope of the valleys that incline towards the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
16. From there they travelled to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”