'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.