Thematic Bible: Reptiles


Thematic Bible



These are to you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead becomes unclean until evening.

'He too, who eats some of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening, and the one who picks up its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. 'Now every swarming thing that swarms on the earth is detestable, not to be eaten. 'Whatever crawls on its belly, and whatever walks on all fours, whatever has many feet, in respect to every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them, for they are detestable. read more.
'Do not render yourselves detestable through any of the swarming things that swarm; and you shall not make yourselves unclean with them so that you become unclean.

and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" read more.
But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."


“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of cobras.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.


You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.


the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


The oracle concerning the beasts of the Negev.
Through a land of distress and anguish,
From where come lioness and lion, viper and flying serpent,
They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys
And their treasures on camels’ humps,
To a people who cannot profit them;

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.


And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.


The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.



Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?


He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.


‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.


‘Now these are to you the unclean among the swarming things which swarm on the earth: the mole, and the mouse, and the great lizard in its kinds,


Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.


and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.


The leech has two daughters,
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:


“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,
A horned snake in the path,
That bites the horse’s heels,
So that his rider falls backward.




Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and winged fowl;


So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.


He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.


Speak and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
The great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers,
That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’


and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.


They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.


So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.


The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra,
And the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.


But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.


But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.


“He sucks the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue slays him.