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English: The brass serpent (Nehushtan) constructed by Moses and set on a pole so that "if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass he lived" (Numbers 21:9). Painting by William Blake.
Date 18th or 19th century.
Source Warrior of Light
Author William Blake.

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