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24 Bible Verses About Snakes

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  • Genesis 3 calls the serpent one of the wild animals God made and does not name it as Satan; Revelation 12:9 and 20:2 call the dragon “that ancient serpent,” the devil or Satan.
  • Anyone bitten in the wilderness who looked at the bronze snake lived (Numbers 21:8-9), and Jesus compares his own lifting up to it in John 3:14-15.
  • Hezekiah broke the bronze snake into pieces because the Israelites had been burning incense to it (2 Kings 18:4).
  • Psalm 140:3, quoted by Paul in Romans 3:13, uses snake venom as a picture of what people say.
  • Paul shook a viper off his hand into the fire on Malta and suffered no ill effects (Acts 28:3-6).

In the Bible, snakes are real animals and also a picture of deceit and danger. The serpent that deceived Eve (Genesis 3:1) is named in Revelation 12:9 as “the devil, or Satan,” and the bronze snake Moses lifted up (Numbers 21:8-9) is the comparison Jesus uses for his own lifting up (John 3:14-15). Elsewhere a snake’s venom stands for lying speech (Psalm 140:3), a snakebite for a danger no one escapes (Amos 5:19), and Jesus tells the disciples he sends…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part One, Section Two, Chapter One, on Genesis 3:15 as the Protoevangelium (“first gospel”). vatican.va

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