Numbers 21:7-9 The people came to Moses and said:We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that He may take the serpents away from us. So Moses prayed about the people.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ The people came to Moses and said:We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that He may take the serpents away from us. So Moses prayed about the people. ⁸ Yahweh said to Moses:Make for yourself a burning serpent and place it on a banner pole; and it will come to be that anyone bitten, when he sees it, will live. ⁹ Moses made a serpent of copper and placed it on the banner pole, and it came to be that if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked to the copper serpent he lived.