They were there bitten by fieryserpents, whose bite caused certain death.
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They're fieryserpents, Captain Rule, and not to be trusted, any on 'em.
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At length he arrived in sight of the fieryserpents.
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Israel became discouraged and spoke against God, and the Lord sent fieryserpents among them.
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At length he arrived in sight of the fieryserpents, and stopped to study them.
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The people murmur and are punished with fieryserpents: they are healed by the brazen serpent.
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Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fieryserpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
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Children, I want you to shrink from this sin as the Jews did from the fieryserpents.
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We slid down screes of ashes, carefully avoiding the lava streams which glided sluggishly by us like fieryserpents.
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And the Lord sent fieryserpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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Twelve hundred melting-troughs were simultaneously opened and twelve hundred fieryserpents crept toward the central well, unrolling their incandescent curves.
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For it can scarcely be disputed that untold treasures lie hidden therein, but guarded by terrors greater than fieryserpents.
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It undermined and blew up the Behring Straits, spread like a brood of gigantic fieryserpents into Asia, Europe and Africa.
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Now, these were fieryserpents, and such as, I think, could fly (Isa 14:29).
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Such of the people as were stung by the fieryserpents, were directed and commanded to look up to the brazen serpent.
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We let fly some dozens of these fieryserpents, which went whizzing in and disappeared at apparently a vast distance from us.