Numbers 21:8 & 9
It looks like the design on the back of an ambulance
That dates back to early Judeo-Christian mythology. In one of the Old Testament stories, snakes were sent out to chomp the Israelis for some slight or another against their god. Moses was then instructed to craft a snake and put it on a pole. And anyone who was chomped simply had to look at the snake and pole, and they would be cured.
Nothing. Bible says that earth is flat, and thus it can't have poles.
The symbol of medicine in the USA is the a snake entwined around a pole. The American Medical Association adopted it early in its formative years. It is based upon the Judeo-Christian biblical story found in the book of Numbers where God instructed Moses to mount a bronze image of a serpant on a pole to be held up for the people to look upon in order to be healed after he had struck them with a plague for their rebellion and complaining.
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American King James Verson: 'And the Lord said to Moses 'Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looks on it shall live.' Moses either free-carved a serpent or carved the shape of serpent into the pole.
Snakes can climb, so it really does not mean a thing.
It was a wooden snake.
No people live at the north pole
crossing your fingers represents the snake on a flag pole which is very bad luck.
The Equator is exactly between the North Pole and the South Pole. Look on a map of the world or on a globe.
No, this is a simile. Personification is where you give an object life-like or human features. For example, if you say "The bars on the pole stretched out," this is giving the pole the ability to stretch.