Those who looked up at the serpent were healed. It was as simple as that. Why not develop medicine? Why not require them to work for a cure? It would have given them all something to do and would have satisfied every natural instinct of the heart to work on behalf of its own cure....
These include turning a staff into a serpent, making a hand leprous and then healing it, and turning water from the Nile into blood. These signs serve as evidence of God's power and authority, intended to convince both the Israelites and Pharaoh of Moses' legitimacy as God's messenger. ...
” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.4But theLordsaid to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—5“that they maybelieve that theLord,the ...
Moses also figures into several of Jesus' messages. When he met the Pharisee Nicodemus at night in the third chapter of John, he compares Moses' lifting up of the bronze serpent in the wilderness, which any Israelite could look upon and be healed, to his own lifting up (by his death an...
Write each man’s name on his staff,… Berean Standard Bible· Download Cross References Exodus 7:10-12So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent. / But Pharaoh called ...
The fourth, when his staff was turned into a serpent which devoured the other serpents. The fifth, are the names which were written on the forehead of Aaron. The sixth, when he made a brazen serpent and burned the golden calf to divert pestilence from the Israelites. The seventh, whe...
15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, when he goes out to the water, and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand. 16 And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews h...
/ Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.Exodus 9:23-24So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of...
10And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as theLordhad commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also d...
Once more it was, not a stiffened serpent, but an actual staff, or walking-stick. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary4:1-9 Moses objects, that the people would not take his word, unless he showed them some sign. God gives him power to work miracles. But those who are now employed to...