25 Bible Verses about Animals Eating

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Exodus 22:5

“If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed bare or lets his livestock loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

Genesis 40:17

and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds [of prey] were eating [these foods] out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 41:2

And lo, there came up out of the Nile seven [healthy] cows, sleek and handsome and fat; and they grazed in the reed grass [in a marshy pasture].

Genesis 41:18

and seven fat, sleek and handsome cows came up out of the river, and they grazed in the reed grass [of a marshy pasture].

Genesis 41:4

Then the ugly and gaunt and raw-boned cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

Genesis 41:20

And the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

Isaiah 56:9


All you beasts of the field,
All you beasts (hostile nations) in the forest,
Come to eat.

Amos 7:2

And when the locusts had finished eating the plants of the land, then I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!
How can Jacob stand,
For he is so small [that he cannot endure this]?”

Job 1:14

and a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,

Job 40:15


“Behold now, Behemoth, which I created as well as you;
He eats grass like an ox.

Numbers 22:4

Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will lick up all that is around us, just as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was the king of Moab at that time.

Numbers 23:24


“Behold, a people rises up like a lioness
And lifts itself up like a lion;
He will not lie down until he devours the prey
And drinks the blood of the slain.”

Isaiah 5:17


Then the lambs will graze [among the ruins] as in their own pasture,
And strangers will eat in the desolate places of the [exiled] wealthy.

Exodus 10:5

They shall cover the [visible] surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the ground, and they will eat the rest of what has remained—that is, the vegetation left after the hail—and they will eat every one of your trees that grows in the field;

Exodus 10:12

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat all the plants of the land, all that the hail has left.”

Exodus 10:15

For they covered the [visible] surface of the land, so that the ground was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained not a green thing on the trees or the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

Psalm 105:35


And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.

Matthew 13:4

and as he sowed, some seed fell beside the road [between the fields], and the birds came and ate it.

Mark 4:4

and as he was sowing, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

Luke 8:5

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell beside the road and it was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

Leviticus 1:16

He shall remove its crop with its feathers and throw it next to the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.

Mark 5:11

Now there was a large herd of pigs grazing there on the mountain.

Luke 8:32

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the mountain. The demons begged Jesus to allow them to enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.

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Genesis 37:20

Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits (cisterns, underground water storage); then we will say [to our father], ‘A wild animal killed and devoured him’; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!”

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