'Snakes' in the Bible
For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.
Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.
Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;
Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.
So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.