This mumbling and complaining sent God into a furious rage again and He sent a huge gaggle of scary, venomous snakes to kill the people.

There was chaos everywhere as people tried to escape the serpentine hordes. They bit everyone, old men, women, and children. The bites had a very potent venom and it felt like you were on fire when they bit you. The bites were fatal and many people started dying.

The people were terrified. They went to Moses and pleaded for help, saying how sorry they were that they had made a fuss about being hungry and thirsty. Then Moses pleaded once more with God to stop killing people. God told Moses that He'd prefer to keep killing them for now, but there was something Moses could do. He could manufacture an antidote. But this wasn't the kind of antidote Moses was expecting. No, this was a real surprise.
 

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