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The bronze serpent.

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In the book of Numbers (21:9) it is related that when the Israelites were being bitten by venomous serpents in the wilderness for murmuring against God and Moses, Moses received a command from God to make a serpent of bronze and set it up on a pole, so that anyone bitten who looked upon it would remain alive.

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