... > Raamattu > Vanha Testamentti > Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomion, Joosua: israelilaisten orjuusajasta Egyptissä heidän asettumiseensa Kanaanin maahan > Numbers: the wandering in the wilderness, the Israelites leave Mount Sinai and reach Canaan > Numbers (part II): the journey from Kadesh to Moab > the brazen serpent (Numbers 21:4-9) > when the people complain again about the food, God sends poisonous snakes; many die of snake-bites ~ book of Numbers > Moses, petitioned by the Israelites, entreats God to take the snakes away