³² In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.

⁵ And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.

⁶ And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

²⁶ And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.

³ Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:

¹⁹ As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.

¹⁷ See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.

³¹ The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

⁵ They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.

⁷ And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

⁸ For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

³ The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;

⁸ He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.

¹¹ And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

¹⁶ He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

¹² For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

²¹ What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.