Numbers 21:3-30 The Message (MSG)

3. God listened to Israel’s prayer and gave them the Canaanites. They destroyed both them and their towns, a holy destruction. They named the place Hormah (Holy Destruction).

8. God said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it on a flagpole: Whoever is bitten and looks at it will live.”

9. So Moses made a snake of fiery copper and put it on top of a flagpole. Anyone bitten by a snake who then looked at the copper snake lived.

30. Oh, but we finished them off:Nothing left of Heshbon as far as Dibon;Devastation as far off as Nophah,scorched earth all the way to Medeba.

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