'Serpents' in the Bible

For every man threw down his staff and they turned into serpents; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Then the Lord sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.

So the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord, so that He will remove the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,And the deadly poison of vipers.

“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,Vipers which cannot be charmed,And they will bite you,” says the Lord.