As Israel skirted the land of Edom a voice of complaining rose up in the camp. Their impatience was getting the best of them. That is an odd idea since the nation had spent most of 40 years in the wilderness why were they so anxious as to complain about the leader whom God had chosen? They didn’t have the amount of water that they wanted, and they still ate manna every day. I wonder if there were some of the remaining complainers who had left Egypt who started the ruckus? Maybe they were in a hurry because they were thinking that since they had survived this long they might cheat God and get into the promised land. But their complaints led God to act; sending poisonous serpents to infest the camp. I wonder if they serpents only bit people who were complaining?
It took me almost 20 minutes to read this passage.
Stuart
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