I am sorry I do not understand your question. God punished the snake for causing man to fall into disobedience, but before that he was already condemned. I don't see anywhere in the bible that other snakes followed?
“The serpent was more crafty than any wild creature that the LORD God had made.” (Genesis 3:1 NEB)
“The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made.” (NLT version)
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.” (King James)
Three versions, three texts in agreement. The snake was a beast of the field, a wild creature, different from the other animals only in that it was more crafty, more shrewd, more subtle than the others; oh, and it could talk, but there is no claim, not here, that it was Satan. If you wish further evidence that the serpent was merely an animal scan down further to the account of its punishment by God.
“Because you have done this you are accursed
more than all cattle and all wild creatures.” (Genesis 3:14 NEB)
Can it be more plain? It is not more cursed than all the angels, or all the Sons of God, it is more cursed than all the animals, more than all the beasts of the field.
“I will put enmity between you and the woman,
between your brood and hers.
They shall strike at your head,
and you shall strike at their heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
What are women traditionally said to fear? Snakes. They do not strike at Satan’s head and he at their heel. This curse is directed at women and snakes, at its brood and hers.
So why could the snake talk? The obvious explanation is that the account in Genesis is a myth. Myths explain why nature is ordered in the way it is. Women are afraid of snakes because this is part of the curse. Labour is painful because that is part of the curse. Man will be her master because it is so directed in the curse.
“You shall be eager for your husband,
and he shall be your master.” (Genesis 3:16)
What of the snake? We all know the words, “On your belly you shall crawl, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life” (Genesis 3:14). The implication is that the snake did not previously crawl. We might also assume that this explains, to this very day, why all serpents now must crawl. Indeed we learn from Wikipedia that “Fossils readily identifiable as snakes (though often retaining hind limbs) first appear in the fossil record during the Cretaceous period” (see Wikipedia: Snake). Does the fossil record support the Genesis claim that snakes once had legs?
Further support for Genesis 3 being a myth is found in the presence of the two magical trees. The fruit of one tree imparts knowledge, the other grants eternal life. Both these traits are the domain of the gods and both were denied the first people, but that would take a few more paragraphs so I won’t get into it just now.
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