6. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7. And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
8. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.
9. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
10. And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
11. And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
12. From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.
13. From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14. Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, And the valleys of Arnon,
15. And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.
16. And from thence they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17. Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18. The well, which the princes digged, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah:
19. and from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20. and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.
21. And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22. Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, until we have passed thy border.
23. And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz: and he fought against Israel.