Thematic Bible: Reptiles


Thematic Bible



These are unclean to you among all that creep: whoever doth touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

And he that eateth of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening; he also that beareth its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And every creeping animal that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. Whatever goeth upon the belly, and whatever goeth upon all four, or whatever hath more feet among all creeping animals that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination. read more.
Ye shall not make your selves abominable with any creeping animal that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled by them.

And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending to him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: In which were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping animals, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. read more.
But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.


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

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.


Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.


The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,


The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and the old lion, the viper and flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where there was no water; who brought thee 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 thou shalt refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may 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 den of the basilisk.

They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.



Or if he shall ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?


Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drouth, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.


These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping animals that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise, after its kind,


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.


These also shall be unclean to you among the creeping animals that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise, after its kind,


And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and the creeping animal, and the beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every animal that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.


And the ferret and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.


The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yes, four things say not, It is enough:


Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse-heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.




Beasts, and all cattle; creeping animals, and flying fowl:


So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping animals, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around upon the wall.


And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping animals, and of fishes.


Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.


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


They hatch cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.


And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: And Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.


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


And if thou shalt refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:


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


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