'Serpents' in the Bible
For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded 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; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
“Their wine is the venom of serpents,And the deadly poison of cobras.
“For behold, I am sending serpents against you,Adders, for which there is no charm,And they will bite you,” declares the Lord.
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you.
Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.