'Snakes' in the Bible

Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and they bit the people; many people of Israel died.

Then the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that he would take away the snakes from us." So Moses prayed for the people.

Their wine is snakes' poison, the deadly venom of cobras.

This is a message about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.

The Lord says, "Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes which cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you."