Thematic Bible: Reptiles


Thematic Bible



These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.

And he that eats of its dead body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. He also that carries its body shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And every swarming thing that swarms on the earth shall be an abomination. It shall not be eaten. Anything going on its belly, and any going on all four, and all having many feet, even every swarming thing that swarms on the earth, you shall not eat them. For they are an abomination. read more.
You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that swarms, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, so that you should be defiled by them.

And he saw the heaven opened and a certain vessel like a sheet coming down to him, being bound at the four corners and let down to the earth; in which were all the four-footed animals of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the reptiles, and the birds of the heaven. And a voice came to him, saying, Rise, Peter! Kill and eat! read more.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.


Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.

And I will make Jerusalem ruins, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without a living soul.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich.


You shall tread on the lion and adder; the young lion and the jackal You shall trample underfoot.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

At the last it bites like an asp and stings like an adder.


the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish in the waters beneath the earth;

lest you act corruptly and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


The burden concerning the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and woe. The lioness and the lion are from them; the viper, and the fiery flying serpent. They carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit.

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


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

And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I am going to strike all your borders with frogs.


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.

Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.


And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.



Or if he asks a fish, will he give him a snake?


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


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.


These also shall be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind;


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.


These also shall be unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind;


And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind; and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good.


and the gecko, and the monitor, and the lizard, and the sand lizard, and chameleon.


The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!


Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that bites the horse's heels, so that its rider shall fall backward.




beasts and all cattle, creeping things and birds of the wing,


And I went in and saw. And behold, every kind of creeping thing, and hateful beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.


And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.


Speak and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is mine, and I have made it.


and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.


They hatch adders' eggs and weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.


And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron threw down his rod in front of Pharaoh and in front of his servants, and it became a snake.


And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.


And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I am going to strike all your borders with frogs.


And Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laying them on the fire, a viper came out of the heat and fastened on his hand.


He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.