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After Moses and the people of Israel escaped from Egypt, they wandered for many years in the Sinai peninsula. At one time, a plague of poisonous serpents attacked the people. Many died of snakebite. Moses received a divine inspiration to make a bronze serpent and put it on the top of a pole. Anyone who had been bitten could look at that bronze serpent and be healed. (Numbers 21:8-9) The bronze serpent, from the days of Moses, became a national relic of the Hebrew nation. Gradually, it became the object of superstitious worship.