confess to the Lord and Moses (compare 12:11), who intercedes for them. God provides an unexpected antidote to the serpents, not by means of a serum based on their venom, but by means of an artificial serpent set up high on a “pole”, which need be only looked at for recovery and presumably immunity thereafter. It is not said that the Israelites kept this serpent and took it with them, but in 2 Kings 18:4 part of the much-needed reformative work of King Hezekiah was to destroy a “bronze serpent