⁸ The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole;^(A) anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”

⁹ So Moses made a bronze snake^(A) and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.^(B)

31 When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down^(A) the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.