7. Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away the snakes from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”
9. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that if a snake had bitten someone, when he looked at the bronze snake he lived.
10. The Israelites traveled on and camped in Oboth.
11. Then they traveled on from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that is before Moab, on the eastern side.
12. From there they moved on and camped in the valley of Zered.
13. From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends from the regions of the Amorites, for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14. This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon
15. and the slope of the valleysthat extends to the dwelling of Ar, and falls off at the border of Moab.”
16. And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”
17. Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!
18. The well which the princes dug,which the leaders of the people openedwith their scepters and their staffs.”And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
19. and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20. and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.
21. Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,
22. “Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”