11 Bible Verses about Fat Animals

when all of a sudden seven healthy, plump cows emerged from the Nile to graze in the grass that grew in the reeds that lined the bank.

But all of a sudden they ate up the seven healthy, plump cows! Then Pharaoh woke up.

and all of a sudden seven healthy, plump, beautiful cows emerged from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds that line the bank.

But those thin, gaunt cows gobbled up the first seven healthy cows!

"Woe to you shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves and not the sheep. Shouldn't shepherds feed the sheep? You're eating the best parts, clothing yourselves with the wool, and slaughtering the home-grown sheep without having fed the sheep!

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: "Watch me! I'm going to judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep,

"I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"

for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs."

Bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let's eat and celebrate!

The servant told him, "Your brother has come home, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he got him back safely.'

But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!'