Wisdom 16:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶ This trouble lasted for only a little while, as a warning. Then you gave them a healing symbol, the bronze snake, to remind them of what your Law requires. ⁷ If a person looked at that symbol, he was cured of the snakebite—not by what he saw, but by you, the savior of all mankind. ⁸ By doing this, you also convinced our enemies that you are the one who rescues people from every evil.