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With their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained
against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this
desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted with this wretched
food!” In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents, which bit
the people so that many of them died. Sirach
2:7, 12-14
Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned in complaining
against the LORD and you.
Wisdom
1:10-11; Sirach
1:22-24; Isaiah
53:7 Philippians
2:14. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us.” So Moses
prayed for the people, and the LORD said to Moses, “Make a saraph and mount it
on a pole, and if any who have been bitten look
at it, (i.e., to consider, give attention to,
discern) they will live.”
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever
anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
Sirach
2:18; Sirach
17:29; Isaiah
55:6-7
Hearken, my people, to my
teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter mysteries from of old.
While he slew them they sought him and inquired after God again, Remembering
that God was their rock and the Most High God, their redeemer.
But they flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their
tongues, Though their hearts were not steadfast toward him, nor were they
faithful to his covenant.
But he, being merciful, forgave their sin and destroyed them not; Often
he turned back his anger and let none of his wrath be roused.
Brothers and sisters: Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did
not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied
himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human
in appearance, he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Contrast this with the people’s attitude in the beginning of the Numbers
reading. Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the
earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father. Contrast this with the result of the
people’s bad attitude in the beginning of the Numbers reading.
Jesus said to Nicodemus: “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who
has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone
who believes in him may have eternal life.”
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone
who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did
not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might
be saved through him. Sirach
2:18; Sirach
17:29; Isaiah
55:6-7
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