'Serpents' in the Bible
they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron's staff swallowed up their staves.
Then Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, which bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, in that we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee: pray to Jehovah that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, a wilderness of fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
For behold, I send among you serpents, vipers against which there is no charm, and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.
Behold, I give you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise injure you.
Neither let us tempt the Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by serpents.
For the power of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails: for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they injure.