8 Bible Verses about Animal Reproduction
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So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.
Furthermore, whenever the stronger [animals] of the flocks were breeding, Jacob would place the branches in the sight of the flock in the watering troughs, so that they would mate and conceive among the branches;
And it happened at the time when the flock conceived that I looked up and saw in a dream that the rams which mated [with the female goats] were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
‘You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear clothing of two kinds of material mixed together.
Let our cattle bear
Without mishap and without loss,
And let there be no outcry in our streets!
‘All the birds of the sky made their nests in its twigs,
And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth [to their young],
And all of the great nations lived under its shadow.
“Do you know the time when the wild goats of the rock give birth [to their young]?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?
“Can you count the months that they carry offspring,
Or do you know the time when they give birth?
“They kneel down, they bring forth their young,
They cast out their labor pains.
“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”