'Serpent' in the Bible
and if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?
And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?
'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;
and the great dragon was cast forth -- the old serpent, who is called 'Devil,' and 'the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world -- he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.
and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;
and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,
and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,