When you picture the story in Numbers 21… Israel complains, God sends “fiery serpents,” people get bitten, Moses makes a bronze serpent on a pole… your brain probably sees a bunch of slithering reptiles in the sand.
But in Hebrew, the phrase is נְחָשִׁים שְׂרָפִים (nechashim seraphim) and it literally means “serpents” and “seraphim.” And that’s where it…
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