Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
Numbers 21: 6-9
There’s a superstitious tale attached to the death of my ancestors. It seems that many generations back one of the patriarch’s killed a female snake. He killed her when she was romancing with her partner. So the male cursed my family saying that as he pines for his partner so shall all the males of my family pine for their females and die an early death. And looks like this thing happened for many of them. None of the male members of the family have ever been happily married. There always has been some marital problem.
But the females have been spared. May be because God always knew one female member of the family will ‘look up to the cross and be saved’…
Thank you, Jesus, for saving me…
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