3 You did these things, so that when those Egyptians were hungry, they would feel sick and lose their appetites, because they would have to eat the horrible meat of snakes. However, after suffering for a while, your own people enjoyed the best of foods.
4 In this way, those who had been oppressed could watch their oppressors suffer cruel punishment.
5 When you were angry with your people and were destroying them with poisonous snakes, you stopped before all of them died,
6 because you did this merely as a warning. Then you told them to make a metal snake, so that they would be rescued and remember to obey your Law.
7 Everyone who looked at the metal snake was saved, not because of the snake itself, but because of you, the Savior of all people.
8 By doing this, you proved to our enemies that you alone can protect people from harm,
9 because many of them got what they deserved, when they died from the bites of locusts and flies.