7. Therefore 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 take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
9. So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
10. Now the children of Israel moved on and camped in Oboth.
11. And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is east of Moab, toward the sunrise.
12. From there they moved and camped in the Valley of Zered.
13. From there they moved and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from 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:“Waheb in Suphah,The brooks of the Arnon,
15. And the slope of the brooksThat reaches to the dwelling of Ar,And lies on the border of Moab.”
16. From there they went to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
17. Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well!All of you sing to it—