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The book of Numbers is the story of the people of Israel in the wilderness as they departed from slavery in Egypt to the freedom of the promised land of Canaan. It contains a variety of materials relating to this transition from the old generation of Israel to the new, including stories and laws, census lists, instructions for worship, reports of military battles, and accounts of legal disputes....
that was beheld, but by you, the Savior of all.… For you have power over life and death; you lead mortals down to the gates of Hades and back again. (Wisd. Sol. 16:6–7, 13) In Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament, Karen Randolph Joines summarizes the human fascination with the snake: Antipathy and fear for the serpent have equalled respect for it. Its slender fangs can puncture the flesh of a strong man, and he is no more. Conversely, the serpent represented life. It glides from the earth—it is
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