71 Bible Verses about Animals

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Genesis 1:24

And God will say, the earth shall bring forth the living soul according to its kind, cattle and creeping things, and living things of the earth after its kind: and it shall be so.

Job 12:7

But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and the birds of the heavens, and they shall announce to thee:

Genesis 9:2

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given.

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Animals » Lions » Sheep

Genesis 30:32

I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire.

Deuteronomy 18:4

The first fruits of thy grain, of thy new wine, and thy new oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep thou shalt give to him.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curdled milk of the cow, and milk of the sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams, sons of Bashan, and he goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; Thou shalt drink wine, the blood of the grape.

2 Chronicles 7:5

And king Solomon will sacrifice a Sacrifice of oxen, twenty and two thousand; and sheep, a hundred and twenty thousand. And the king and all the people will consecrate the house of God.

Animals » Names of » Deer

Psalm 42:1

To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.

Deuteronomy 14:5

The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle.

2 Samuel 2:18

And there will be there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as one of the roes which are in the field.

2 Samuel 22:34

Setting my feet as the hinds: And upon the heights will he cause me to stand.

1 Chronicles 12:8

And of the Gadites they separated to David to the castle from the desert strong ones of power, men of the army for war, setting in array the shield and spear, and the face of a lion their faces, and as roes upon the mountain to make haste;

Animals » Beasts symbolical

Revelation 7:11

And all the angels stood round about the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne upon their faces, and worshipped God,

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit

Daniel 7:11

I was seeing at that time from the voice of the great words that the horn was speaking: I was seeing even till that the beast was killed and its body destroyed, and it was given to the burning fire.

Animals » Names of » Camels

Judges 6:5

For they and their cattle will come up, and their tents will come, as an abundance of locusts for multitude; and to them and to their camels no number: and they will come into the land to destroy it

Job 1:3

And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.

Genesis 12:16

And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels.

Genesis 30:43

And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

Leviticus 11:4

But this ye shall not eat: from them bringing up rumination, and from them cleaving the cloven hoof; the camel, for it bringing up rumination, and cleaving not its cloven hoof; it is unclean to you.

Animals » Names of » Bullocks, as offerings

Exodus 29:11

And slaughter the bullock before Jehovah at the door of the tent of the appointment.

Exodus 29:36

And the bullock of sin, thou shalt do in the day of expiations, and make an atonement upon the altar in thy making an atonement upon its and anoint it to consecrate it

Leviticus 4:4

And he brought the bullock to the door of the tent of appointment, before Jehovah; and he placed his hand upon the head of the bullock, and slaughtered the bullock before Jehovah.

Numbers 15:8

And when thou shalt do the son of a cow, a burnt-offering or sacrifice to separate a vow, or peace to Jehovah:

1 Kings 18:33

And he will put in order the woods, and he will cut the bullock in pieces and put upon the woods,

Animals » Lions » Characteristics of

Deuteronomy 33:22

And to Dan he said, Dan a lion's whelp: he shall spring forth from Bashan.

Judges 14:18

And the men of the city will say to him in the seventh day before the sun will go down, What is sweet above honey? and what is strong above the lion? and he will say to them, Unless ye ploughed with my heifer ye found not out my enigma.

2 Samuel 17:10

And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him.

Job 10:16

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Psalm 17:12

His likeness as a lion will long for the prey, and as a young lion dwelling in secret places.

Animals » Names of » Cattle

Genesis 1:25

And God will make the living thing of the earth according to its kind, and cattle according to its kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind: and God will see that it is

Genesis 31:18

And he will lead away all his cattle and all his horse which he acquired, the cattle of his acquisition, which he acquired in Padan Aram, to go to Isaak his father in the land of Canaan.

Exodus 9:4

And Jehovah separated between the cattle of Israel and between the cattle of Egypt: and nothing shall die from all the sons of Israel, spoken of

Exodus 20:10

And the seventh day the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no service, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and thy cattle, and thy stranger which is in thy gates.

Numbers 32:1

And much cattle was to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad exceedingly strong: and they will see the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place a place of cattle.

Animals » Names of » Dogs

Deuteronomy 23:18

Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, and the price of a dog to the house of Jehovah thy God, for any vow: for these two are also an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

1 Kings 14:11

Him dying to Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him dying in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah spake.

1 Kings 22:38

And one will inundate the chariot in the pool of Shomeron; and the dogs will lick his blood; and the harlots washed, according to the word of Jehovah which he spake.

Psalm 59:6

They will turn back at evening: they will make a noise as a dog, and they will surround the city.

Animals » God's care of

1 Corinthians 9:9

For in the law of Moses has been written, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox grinding. Is there not care to God for oxen?

Genesis 9:9-10

And I, behold I establish my covenant with you and with your seed after you. And with every breathing thing which is with you, of birds, of cattle, and of every living thing of the earth with you, from all going out of the ark, to every living thing of the earth.

Animals » Names of » Asses, beasts of burden

Genesis 22:3

And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and will saddle his ass, and will take two of his boys with him, and Isaak his son, and he will cleave the wood for the burnt offering, and will rise up and go to the place God spake to him.

Numbers 22:28

And Jehovah will open the mouth of the ass, and she will say to Balaam, What did I to thee that thou hast smitten me this three beats?

Judges 5:10

Ye riding upon white asses, Sitting upon jurisdiction, And going upon the way, speak ye.

Judges 10:4

And to him will be thirty sons riding upon thirty young asses, and thirty cities to them; and they will call them the villages of Jair even to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

More verses: 1 Samuel 9:3 Matthew 21:2

Animals » Names of » Dragons

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine the wrath of dragons, And the fierce head of asps.

Isaiah 34:13

And thorns came up in her palaces, the nettle and the thorn bush in her fortifications, and it was a dwelling of jackals, an enclosure for the daughters of the ostrich.

Jeremiah 9:11

And I gave Jerusalem for heaps and a dwelling of jackals; and the cities of Judah I will give a desolation from none inhabiting.

Jeremiah 51:37

And Babel was for heaps, a habitation of jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, from none inhabiting.

More verses: Micah 1:8 Malachi 1:3

Animals » Lions » Swine

Leviticus 11:7

And the swine, for this cleaving the cloven hoof and dividing, divided the cloven hoof, and it will not excite rumination; it is unclean to you.

Isaiah 65:4

Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels.

Isaiah 66:17

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

Matthew 7:6

Ye should not give the holy thing to dogs neither should ye cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and having turned, should rend yon.

More verses: Luke 15:15 2 Peter 2:22

Animals » Laws concerning

Exodus 20:10

And the seventh day the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no service, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and thy cattle, and thy stranger which is in thy gates.

Exodus 21:28-36

And if an ox shall push (with the horns) a man or a woman, and he died; stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of the ox being innocent And if this ox pushed (with the horns) from yesterday the third day, and being testified to its lord, and he will not watch him and he killed the man or the woman; the ox shall be stoned, and also his lord shall be put to death. If an expiation shall be put upon him, the price of redemption of his soul according to all which shall be put upon him. read more.
If he shall push (with his horns) a son, or shall push a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. If the ox shall push a servant, or a maid, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to his lord, and the ox shall be stoned. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him. And if a man's ox shall strike the ox of his friend and he died, and they shall sell the living ox and divide the silver, and also the dead ox they shall divide. Or if this ox was known to push from yesterday, the third day, and his lord guarded him not; recompensing, he shall recompense, ox for ox, and the dead shall be to him.

Exodus 22:1-4

If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If in breaking in a thief shall be found, and he was smitten and died, no bloods for him. If the sun was risen upon him, bloods for him: recompensing, he shall recompense; if nothing to him, to be sold for his theft. read more.
If finding, the theft shall be found in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a sheep; living, he shall recompense two.

Animals » Names of » Leopards

Song of Songs 4:8

Thou shalt come with me from Lebanon, O bride, with me from Lebanon: thou shalt go round about from the head of faith, from the head of Shenir and Hermon, from the dwellings of lions, from the mountains of panthers.

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them.

Jeremiah 5:6

For this, a lion from the forest struck them, a wolf of the deserts will destroy them, the panther watched over their cities: every one going forth from thence shall be torn in pieces; for their transgressions were multiplied, their turnings away were strong.

Hosea 13:7

And I will be to them as a lion: as a panther upon the way I will look around.

More verses: Habakkuk 1:8

Animals » Names of » Bears

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

2 Samuel 17:8

And Hushai will say, Thou knewest thy father and his men that they are mighty, and they bitter of soul as a bear bereaved of offspring in the field: and thy father a man of war, and he will not lodge with the people.

2 Kings 2:24

And he will turn behind him and see them, and he will curse them in the name of Jehovah. And, two she-bears will come forth from the forest and will rend of them forty and two children.

Proverbs 17:12

A bereaved bear meeting with a, man, and not a fool in his folly.

More verses: Isaiah 11:7

Animals » Instincts of

Psalm 59:6

They will turn back at evening: they will make a noise as a dog, and they will surround the city.

Deuteronomy 32:11

As the eagle he will arouse his young brood, He will brood over his young birds; He will spread out his wings, and will take them; He will lift them up upon his wings:

Job 35:11

And who teacheth us from the cattle of the earth, and he will make us wise above the birds of the heavens?

Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise: Which no leader to her, scribe and ruler; She will prepare in summer her bread, gathering her food in harvest.

Proverbs 30:25-28

The ants a people not strong, and they will prepare their bread in the summer; The rabbits a people not strong, and they will set their house in the rock; To the locust no king, and it will go forth divided all of them; read more.
The lizard will take hold with their hands, and it is in the temples of the king.

Animals » Names of » Horses

Deuteronomy 17:16

Only he shall not multiply. to himself horses, and he shall not turn back the people to Egypt in order to multiply the horse: and Jehovah said to you, Ye shall no more add to turn back that way.

2 Kings 23:11

And he will take away the horses which the kings of Judah gave to the sun at the going in of the house of Jehovah into the chamber the king gave the eunuch which was in the open portico, and he burnt the chariots of the sun in fire.

Job 39:19

Wilt thou give strength to the horse? wilt thou clothe his neck with thunder?

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

More verses: Psalm 33:17

Animals » Names of » Goats, as offerings

Genesis 15:9

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.

Leviticus 4:24

And he placed his hand upon the head of the goat, in the place where he shall slaughter the burnt-offering before Jehovah: it is sin.

Leviticus 16:15

And he slaughtered the he goat of the sin which was for the people, and he brought its blood within the vail, and he did its blood as he did to the blood of the bullocks; and he sprinkled it upon the cover and before the cover.

Judges 13:19

And Manoah will take a kid of the goats, and the gift, and will bring up, upon the rock to Jehovah; and he separating to do, and Manoah and his wife seeing.

2 Chronicles 29:23

And they will bring near the he goats of the sin before the king and the convocation; and they will lay their hands upon them.

Animals » Habits of

Psalm 29:9

The voice of Jehovah will cause the hinds to bring forth, and will uncover the forests: and in his temple every one said, Glory.

Job 12:7-8

But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and the birds of the heavens, and they shall announce to thee: Or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall recount to thee.

Job 37:8

And the beast shall go into the covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.

Job 40:20

For the mountains shall lift up produce for him, and all the beasts of the field shall play there.

Psalm 104:20-25

Thou didst set darkness and it will be night: in it all the beasts of the forest shall creep. The young lions roaring for prey, and to seek from God their food. The sun shall rise, they will be gathered together, and in their dens they will lie down. read more.
Man will go forth to his work, and to his labor even to evening. How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions. This great and broad sea, hands there of the creeping thing, and no number of the beasts, small with great

Animals » Names of » Foxes

Nehemiah 4:3

And Tobiah the Ammonite near him, and he will say, Also that they are building, if a fox shall go up, and he brake their walls of stones.

Judges 15:4

And Samson will go and will take three hundred foxes, and will take torches, and will turn tail to tail, and will put one torch between two tails in the midst

Psalm 63:10

They shall deliver to the hands of the sword; they shall be a portion of foxes.

Song of Songs 2:15

Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying the vineyards: and our vineyards are in blossom.

Animals » Names of » Lambs, for offerings

Exodus 29:39

The one he lamb thou shalt do in the morning; and the second he lamb thou shalt do between the two evenings.

Leviticus 3:7

If he is bringing a lamb his offering, he brought it before Jehovah.

Leviticus 4:32

And if he shall bring a lamb his offering for sin, a blameless female shall he bring.

Leviticus 5:6

And he brought his trespass to Jehovah for his sin which he sinned, a female from the sheep, a lamb or she goat of the goats, for the sin; and the priest expiated for him from his sin,

Numbers 6:12

And he consecrated to Jehovah the day of his consecration, and he brought a lamb, the son of a year, for trespass: and the former days shall fall because his consecration was defiled.

Animals » Lions » Mules

2 Samuel 13:29

And Absalom's boys will do to Amnon as Absalom commanded. And all the king's sons will rise up and ride each upon his mule and flee.

2 Samuel 18:9

And Absalom will meet before the servants of David, and Absalom rode upon the mule, and the mule will go under the thicket of the great oak, and his head will lay hold upon the oak, and he will be given between the heavens and between the earth; and the mule which was under him passed by.

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

1 Kings 1:33

And the king will say to them, Take with you the servants of your lord and cause Solomon my son to ride upon the mule which is to me, and bring down to Gihon:

Zechariah 14:15

And thus shall be the smiting of the horse, the mule, the camel, and the ass, and all the cattle which shall be in those camps, as this smiting.

Animals » Lions » Rams, used in sacrifices

Genesis 15:9

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.

Genesis 22:13

And Abraham will lift up his eyes, and will see and behold a ram behind, being held in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham will come and take the ram and bring it for a burnt offering instead of his son.

Exodus 29:15

And the one ram thou shalt take; and Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Leviticus 5:15

When a soul shall cover transgression and sin in erring from the holy things of Jehovah; and he brought his trespass to Jehovah, a blameless ram from the sheep, by thy estimation of shekels of silver, by the shekel of the holy place, for the trespass.

Numbers 5:8

And if not to the man a kinsman to give back the transgression to him, the transgression being given back to Jehovah, to the priest; besides the ram of expiations, it shall be expiated by it for him.

Animals » Homes of

Job 37:8

And the beast shall go into the covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.

Psalm 104:20-25

Thou didst set darkness and it will be night: in it all the beasts of the forest shall creep. The young lions roaring for prey, and to seek from God their food. The sun shall rise, they will be gathered together, and in their dens they will lie down. read more.
Man will go forth to his work, and to his labor even to evening. How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions. This great and broad sea, hands there of the creeping thing, and no number of the beasts, small with great

Isaiah 34:14

And animals of the desert lighted upon the howlers, and the he goat shall call to his neighbor; also there the night spectre rested, and found for herself a resting place.

Job 24:5

Behold, wild asses in the desert will go forth in their work, seeking for prey: the sterile region bread for him, and for the young.

Animals » Lions » Unicorn

Deuteronomy 33:17

The honor to him the first-born of the bullock, his horns the horns of the unicorn: with them he will thrust the peoples together to the extremity of the earth: these the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these the thousands of Manasseh

Job 39:9

Will the buffalo be willing to serve thee, or will he lodge by thy stall?

Psalm 29:6

And he will cause them to leap as a calf; Lebanon and Sirion as the son of buffaloes.

Isaiah 34:7

And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the strong ones; and their land was drunk from blood, and from fat shall their dust be made fat

Animals » Sent in judgment

Leviticus 26:22

And I sent upon you the beast of the field, and it bereaved you of children, and cut off your cattle, and, diminished you, and your ways were laid waste.

Numbers 21:6-7

And Jehovah will send upon the people deadly serpents, and they will bite the people; and much people will die from Israel And the people will come to Moses, and they will say, We sinned, for we spake against Jehovah and against thee; wilt thou pray to Jehovah and he will remove the serpent from us? And Moses will pray for the people.

Deuteronomy 8:15

He causing thee to go in the great and fearful desert, the fiery serpent and the scorpion, and a thirsty land, where is no water: he bringing forth to thee water from the rock of flint;

Ezekiel 5:17

And I sent upon you famine and the evil beast, and it bereaved thee; and death and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I Jehovah spake.

Animals » Clean and unclean

Leviticus 7:21

And when a soul shall touch upon anything unclean, upon the uncleanness of man, or upon unclean cattle, or upon any abominable unclean thing, and eat from the flesh of the sacrifice of peace, which is to Jehovah, that soul was cut off from its people.

Leviticus 20:25

And ye separated between clean cattle to unclean, and between unclean birds and clean: and ye shall not make you souls abhorred by cattle or bird, and by any which shall creep upon the earth which I separated to you for unclean.

Deuteronomy 14:3-20

Thou shalt not eat any abomination. These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats, The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle. read more.
And an cattle cleaving the hoof and dividing the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it. But this ye shall not eat, from those bringing up rumination, or from those cleaving the hoof of the cleft: the camel and the hare, and the coney; for they bringing up rumination and cleaving not the hoofs; they are unclean to you. And the swine, because it cleaves the hoof, and not ruminating, it is unclean to you: from their flesh ye shall not eat, and upon their carcass ye shall not touch. This shall ye eat from all which is in the waters: all which to it are fins and scales, ye shall eat: And every thing which to it are not fins and scales, ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you. All clean birds ye shall eat And this which ye shall not eat from them: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea eagle, And the vulture, and the kite, and the falcon according to its kind, And every raven according to his kind, And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after his kind, The cormorant, and the ibis and the heron, And the pelican, and the carrion vulture, and the gannet, And the stork, and the sand-piper, according to her kind; the hoopoe and the bat And every creeping thing flying it is unclean to you; they shall not be eaten. Every clean flying thing ye shall eat

Acts 10:11-15

And he sees heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as a great linen napkin fastened at the four beginnings, and laid down upon the earth: In which were all the quadrupeds of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and the flying things of heaven. And a voice was to him, Having risen, Peter, kill, and eat. read more.
And Peter said, By no means, Lord; for never ate I anything common or unclean. And a voice again of a second time to him, What things God cleansed, do not thou make common.

More verses: 1 Timothy 4:3-5

Animals » Instruments of God's will

Joel 1:4

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.

Joshua 24:12

And I will send before you the hornet, and it shall drive them out from your face, the two kings of the Amorites: not with thy sword and not with thy bow.

Numbers 21:6

And Jehovah will send upon the people deadly serpents, and they will bite the people; and much people will die from Israel

Numbers 22:28

And Jehovah will open the mouth of the ass, and she will say to Balaam, What did I to thee that thou hast smitten me this three beats?

Exodus 10:1-20

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to Pharaoh: for I made his heart heavy, and the heart of his servants; for sake of my setting these my signs within him. And that thou shalt recount in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what I performed in Egypt, and my signs which I set up among them; and ye knew that I am Jehovah. And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me. read more.
For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds. And it covered the eye of the earth, and he shall not be able to see the earth: and it shall eat the remainder of that escaping, being left to you from the hail; and it shall eat every tree springing up to you out of the field. And they filled thy houses and all the houses of thy servants, and the houses of all Egypt; which thy fathers saw not, and thy fathers' fathers, from the day they were upon the earth, even till this day. And he will turn away and go forth from Pharaoh. And Pharaoh's servants will say to him, How long will this, be to us for a snare? Send forth the men, and they shall serve Jehovah their God, before thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed. And he will turn back Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh, and he will say to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God: who and who are they going. And Moses will say, With our youths and with our old men will we go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and with our oxen will we go: for a festival of Jehovah is to us. And he will say to them, So will Jehovah be with you, as I will send you forth, and your little ones: see ye, for evil is manifest before you. Not so: go now, ye men, and serve Jehovah; for this ye yourselves were seeking. And he will drive them out from before Pharaoh. And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand upon the land of Egypt, with the locust, and it will come up upon the land of Egypt; and it shall eat every green herb of the land, all which the hail left And Moses will stretch forth his rod upon the land of Egypt, and Jehovah drove an east wind upon the earth, all that day and all the night: it was,morning, and the east wind raised up the locust And the locust will come up upon all the land of Egypt, and it will rest in all the bounds of Egypt exceeding many: before it was there no locust thus like it, and after it, it shall not be thus. And it will cover the eye of all the earth, and the land will be dark; and it will eat every green herb of the land, and all the fruit of the tree which the hail left: and not a green thing was left in the tree, and in the green herb of the field, in all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will hasten to call for Moses and for Aaron; and he will say, I sinned against Jehovah your God, and against you. And at this time take away now my sin, only this time, and pray ye to Jehovah your God, and he will remove from me only this death. And he will go forth from Pharaoh, and will pray to Jehovah. And Jehovah will turn a wind of the sea, exceedingly strong, and he will take away the locust and will drive it into the sea of sedge: not one locust remained in all the bounds of Egypt And Jehovah will bind fast the heart of Pharaoh, and he sent not forth the sons of Israel.

More verses: Jeremiah 8:17

Animals » Cruelty to

Numbers 22:27

And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah and she will lie down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger will kindle, and he will strike the ass With a rod.

2 Samuel 8:4

And David will take from him a thousand, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David will destroy all the chariots, and he will leave from them a hundred chariots.

1 Chronicles 18:4

And David will take from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand men on foot: and David will root up every chariot, and David will leave from them a hundred chariots.

Animals » Man's dominion over the natural world

James 3:7

For every nature of beasts, and also of birds, of creeping things, and also of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by the nature of man:

Genesis 9:2

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given.

Psalm 8:6

And thou wilt give him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou didst put all under his feet:

Hebrews 2:8

All things didst thou place under his feet. For in placing all things under him, thou didst leave nothing not subjected to him. And now we see not yet all things placed under him.

Animals » Names of » Heifers, offered as sacrifices

Genesis 15:9

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.

Numbers 19:2

This is the law of the precept which to Jehovah commanded, saying, Speak the sons of Israel and they shall take to thee a red, blameless heifer, to which not a blemish in her, and which a yoke was not lifted up upon her.

Deuteronomy 21:3

And it was the the city being near to the wounded, and the old men of the city took a heifer of the kine which was not worked with, and drew not in the yoke:

Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of bulls and he-goats, and the ashes of a heifer besprinkling the polluted, consecrates to the purity of the flesh:

Animals » Lions » General references to

1 Samuel 17:34

And David will say to Saul, Thy servant was feeding for his father among the sheep, and there came the lion and with the bear, and lifted up a sheep from the flock.

Judges 14:5

And Samson will go down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they will come even to the vineyards of Timnath: and behold, a young lion roared at his meeting.

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

Daniel 6:19

At that time the king will rise in the dawn in the morning, and in haste he departed to the lion's den.

Animals » Names of » Dromedaries, used as beasts if burden

1 Kings 4:28

And the barley and the straw for horses, and for coursers, they will bring to the place where a man will be there according to his judgment

Esther 8:10

And he will write in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and seal with the king's signet ring; and he will send letters by the hand of runners on horses riding the courser, the mules, sons of mares:

Isaiah 60:6

An abundance of camels shall cover thee, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all they from Seba shall come: they shall lift up gold and frankincense; they shall announce good news, the praises of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 2:23

How wilt thou say, I was not defiled? I went not after the Baalims? See thy way in the valley, know what thou didst; a young she camel entangling her ways;

Animals » Suffer under divine judgments, sent upon man

Jeremiah 7:20

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah; Behold my anger and my wrath was poured out to this place, upon man, and upon cattle, and upon the tree of the field, and upon the fruit of the land; and it burnt and it shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbage of every field dry up from the evil of those dwelling in it the earth perished, and the birds; for they said, He shall not see our last Part

Jeremiah 21:6

And I struck the inhabitants of this city, and man and beast: in great death they shall die.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, if a land shall sin against me to cover a transgression, and I stretched forth my hands upon it, and I broke to it the staff of bread, and sent famine upon it, and I cut off from it man and cattle:

Ezekiel 14:17

Or I shall bring a sword upon that land, and I said, Sword, thou shalt pass through the land; and I cut off from it man and cattle.

Animals » Lions » Wolves, a type of the wicked

John 10:12

But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.

Acts 20:29

For I know this, that there shall come in after my departure grievous wolves to you, not sparing the flock.

Animals » Names of » Calves

Genesis 18:7

And Abraham running to the oxen, will take the son of a cow, tender and good, and will give to the youth, and he will hasten to do it

1 Samuel 28:24

And to the woman a calf of the stall in the house; she will haste and sacrifice it, and take flour and knead and bake it unleavened.

Amos 6:4

Lying upon beds of ivory, and stretching out upon their couches, and eating the lambs from the flock, and the calves from the midst of the stall.

Animals » Names of » Kine

Deuteronomy 7:13

And he loved thee and blessed thee, and multiplied thee: and he blest the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy grain and thy new wine and thy new oil, and the young of thy cows and thy flocks of sheep, upon the land which he sware to thy fathers to give to thee.

1 Samuel 6:7

And now take and make one new wagon, and two heifers giving milk, which a yoke came not up upon them, and make fast the heifers upon the wagon, and turn back their young from after them to the house.

Genesis 32:15

Camels giving suck, and their young, thirty; forty heifers and ten bulls; twenty she-asses and ten foals.

Animals » Names of » Conies, rock rabbits

Leviticus 11:5

The coney, for this bringing up rumination, and will not cleave the cloven hoof; it is unclean to you.

Psalm 104:18

The high mountains for the wild goats; the rocks a refuge for the conies.

Proverbs 30:26

The rabbits a people not strong, and they will set their house in the rock;

Animals » Ordained as food for man

Genesis 9:2-3

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given. Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things.

Leviticus 11:3

All cleaving the cloven hoof, and splitting, split the cloven hoof, and lifting up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it

Leviticus 11:9

And this shall ye eat from all which are in the water: all which to it is a fin and scale in the water, in the seas, and in the rivers, ye shall eat them.

Leviticus 11:21-22

But this ye shall eat, from every creeping bird going upon four, to which legs from above its feet to spring with them upon the earth. These from them ye shall eat; the locust according to its kind, the winged locust according to its kind, and the locust without wings according to its kind, and the leaping locust according to its kind.

Deuteronomy 14:4-6

These the cattle which thou shalt eat: the ox, the sheep of the lambs, and the sheep of the goats, The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle. And an cattle cleaving the hoof and dividing the cleft into two hoofs, bringing up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it.

Animals » Lions » Mice

Isaiah 66:17

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

Leviticus 11:29

This being unclean to you among the creeping, creeping upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind;

1 Samuel 6:4

And they will say, What the trespass that we shall turn back to him? And they will say, The number of the princes of Philisteim, five gold tumors, and five gold mice: for one smiting upon them all and upon your princes.

Animals » Humaneness to (toward animals and other creatures)

Exodus 23:5

If thou shalt see the ass of him hating thee, lying down under his load, and thou didst desist from cutting loose for him, releasing, thou shall release with him.

Deuteronomy 22:6

When a bird's nest shall be found before thee in the way in any tree or upon the earth, the young broods or the eggs, and the mother reclining upon the young birds, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother upon the sons.

Luke 14:5

And having answered, he said to them, Whose ass or ox of yours shall fall into a well, and will he not quickly pull it out on the sabbath day?

Animals » God's control of

Isaiah 11:6

The wolf dwelt with the lamb; and the panther will lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together, and a little boy leading with them.

Isaiah 11:8

And the suckling was delighted upon the hole of the asp, and upon the viper's deu the weaned directed his hand.

Isaiah 35:9

The lion shall not be there, and the rapacious beast shall not go up upon it, it shall not be found there; and the redeemed went

Animals » Lions » Vipers, poisonous serpents

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of quadrupeds of the south: into the land of straits and distress, the lioness and the lion from them, the viper and the burning flying they will lift up upon the shoulder of young asses, their riches, and upon the humps of camels their treasures, for a people who shall not profit

Job 20:16

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

Isaiah 59:5

They plundered vipers' eggs, and they will weave spiders webs: he eating from their eggs shall die, and being crushed, it shall break forth a viper.

Animals » Nature of

Psalm 32:9

Ye shall not be as the horse, as the mule, not understanding: with bit and curb to stop his youth, not drawing near to thee.

Ecclesiastes 3:18-21

I said in my heart concerning the speeches of the sons of man, for God to separate them, and for them to see that they are cattle to themselves. For the event of the sons of man, and the event of the cattle, one event to them: as this, so dies this; and the breath of one to all; and the preeminence of man not above the cattle: for all is vanity. All go to one place; all were from dust, and all turned back to dust. read more.
Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.

Animals » Two of every sort preserved in the ark

Genesis 6:19-20

And from every living thing of all flesh, two of all shalt thou bring in to the ark, to preserve alive with thee: male and female shall they be. From birds according to its kind, and cattle according to their kind; of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two from all shall come to thee to preserve alive.

Genesis 7:2-3

From all clean cattle thou shalt take to thee seven; seven male and female; and from cattle which are not clean, this two, male and female. Also of birds of the heavens, seven: seven male and female, to preserve alive seed upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 7:5

And Noah will do according to all which Jehovah commanded him.

Genesis 7:9

Two and two went in to Noah to the ark, male and female, according to which God commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:11

In the year of six hundred years of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in the same day all the fountains of the great deep were divided and the sluices of the heavens were opened.

More verses: Genesis 8:19

Animals » Possessed of devils

Matthew 8:31-32

And the evil spirits besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said to them, Retire. And having gone, they went away into the herd of swine: and, behold, all the herd of swine rushed down the precipice into the sea, and died in the water.

Mark 5:13

And quickly Jesus permitted them. And the evil spirits having come forth, entered into the swine: and the herd rushed through the precipice into the sea, (and they were about two thousand;) and they were choked in the sea.

Luke 8:33

And the demons having come out of the man, came into the swine: and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.

Animals » Names of » Elephants

1 Kings 10:22

for a ship of Tharshish to the king in the sea with the ship of Hiram: one for three years will come, a ship of Tharshish lifting up gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks.

Job 40:15

Behold now, the great beast which I made with thee; he will eat grass as an ox.

Animals » Suffered the plagues of egypt

Exodus 8:17

And they will do so; and Aaron will stretch forth his hand with his rod, and will smite the dust of the earth, and it will be gnats upon man and in quadrupeds: all the dust of the earth was gnats upon all the land of Egypt

Exodus 9:9-10

And it was for dust upon all the land of Egypt, and it was upon man, and upon quadruped for a burning sore breaking forth with pustules over all the land of Egypt And they will take ashes of the furnace and will stand before Pharaoh; and Moses will sprinkle it towards the heavens; and it will be a burning sore, breaking forth with pustules upon man and upon quadruped.

Exodus 9:19

And now send forth to secure thy cattle, and all which is to thee in the field: every man and quadruped which shall be found in the field, and shall not be gathered together to the house, and the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.

Exodus 11:5

And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid which is behind the two mill-stones; and every first-born of quadruped.

Animals » Creations of

Genesis 1:24

And God will say, the earth shall bring forth the living soul according to its kind, cattle and creeping things, and living things of the earth after its kind: and it shall be so.

Genesis 2:19

And Jehovah God will form out of the earth every living thing of the field, and all the birds of the heavens, and he will bring in to the man to see what he will call to it; and all which the man will call it to the living soul, that its name.

Jeremiah 27:5

I made the earth, the man and the cattle which are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by mine arm stretched forth, and I gave it to whom was right in mine eyes.

Animals » Facts about breeding

Genesis 30:35-43

And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons. And he will set a way of three days between him and between Jacob; and Jacob fed Laban's sheep the rest. And Jacob will take to himself a rod of green storax, and the almond tree, and the plane tree, and he will strip off of them the white strippings, uncovering the white which was upon the rods. read more.
And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink. And the sheep shall conceive at the rods, and shall bring forth sheep banded and speckled and patched. And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep. And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods. And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob. And the man will break forth greatly, greatly; and there will be to him many sheep and maids, and servants, and camels and asses.

Genesis 31:8-9

If thus he will say, The speckled shall be thy hire; and all the sheep shall bring forth speckled: and if thus he will say, The banded shall be thy hire, and all the sheep will bring forth white-footed. And God will take away the cattle of your father and will give them to me.

Animals » Offered in sacrifice

Genesis 7:2-8

From all clean cattle thou shalt take to thee seven; seven male and female; and from cattle which are not clean, this two, male and female. Also of birds of the heavens, seven: seven male and female, to preserve alive seed upon the face of all the earth. For yet seven days, and I will give rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will wipe out every living thing which I made from the face of the earth. read more.
And Noah will do according to all which Jehovah commanded him. And Noah the son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah shall come in, and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him to the ark from the face of the water of the flood. From clean beasts, and from cattle which are not clean, and from birds and all which creeps upon the earth.

Animals » Cruelty to » Houghing horses

2 Samuel 8:4

And David will take from him a thousand, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David will destroy all the chariots, and he will leave from them a hundred chariots.

1 Chronicles 18:4

And David will take from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand men on foot: and David will root up every chariot, and David will leave from them a hundred chariots.

Animals » Lions » Pygarg

Deuteronomy 14:5

The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle.

Animals » Names of » Chameleon

Leviticus 11:30

The shrew mouse, and the chameleon, and the salamander, and the snail and the mole.

Animals » Names of » Ferret

Leviticus 11:30

The shrew mouse, and the chameleon, and the salamander, and the snail and the mole.

Animals » Lions » Lizards

Leviticus 11:30

The shrew mouse, and the chameleon, and the salamander, and the snail and the mole.

Animals » Lions » Weasel

Leviticus 11:29

This being unclean to you among the creeping, creeping upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the lizard according to its kind;

Animals » Under the curse

Genesis 3:14

And Jehovah God will say to the serpent, Because thou didst this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 6:7

And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

Animals » Names of » Greyhound

Proverbs 30:31

One girded in loins, or a he goat; and a king, no rising up with him.

Animals » Names of » Hare

Leviticus 11:6

And the hare, for this bringing up rumination, and cleaving not the cloven hoof; it is unclean to you.

Animals » Names of » Apes

1 Kings 10:22

for a ship of Tharshish to the king in the sea with the ship of Hiram: one for three years will come, a ship of Tharshish lifting up gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks.

Animals » Perish at death

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.

Animals » Cruelty to » balaam

Numbers 22:22-33

And the anger of God will kindle because he went; and the messenger of Jehovah will stand in the way, for an adversary to him: and he rode upon his ass, and his two young men with him. And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass will turn from the way and go into the field: and Balaam will strike the ass to turn her in the way. And the messenger of Jehovah will stand in the hollow of the vineyards, an enclosure hence, and an enclosure thence. read more.
And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah and she will press to the wall, and she will press Balaam's foot to the wall; and he will add to strike her, And the messenger of Jehovah will add to pass by and stand in a narrow place where is no way to turn to the right, and to the left And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah and she will lie down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger will kindle, and he will strike the ass With a rod. And Jehovah will open the mouth of the ass, and she will say to Balaam, What did I to thee that thou hast smitten me this three beats? And Balaam will say to the ass, Because thou didst vex me: would that a sword was in my hand, for now I had killed thee. And the ass will say to Balaam, Am not I thine ass which thou didst ride upon me ever since thou wert till this day? and being accustomed, was I accustomed to do to thee thus? And he will say, No. And Jehovah will uncover the the eyes of Balsam, and he will see the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand; and he will bow down and worship upon his face. And the messenger of Jehovah will say to him, For what didst thou strike thine ass this three beats? behold, I came forth for an adversary, for the way is perverse before me. And the ass will see me, and will turn before me this three beats: unless she turned from before me for now also I had slain thee, and preserved her alive.

Animals » Names of » Boars

Psalm 80:13

The swine from the forest will lay it waste, and the Moving thing of the field will feed upon it

Animals » Belong to God

Psalm 50:10-12

For to me all the beasts of the forest, the cattle upon a thousand mountains. I knew all the birds of the mountains and the moving things of the field with me. If I shall hunger I shall not say to thee; for to me the habitable globe, and its fulness.

Animals » Kindness to: instances of » People of gerar, in providing tents for cattle

2 Chronicles 14:15

And also tents of cattle they struck, and they will turn back sheep for multitude, and camels; and they will turn back to Jerusalem.

Animals » Names of » Behemoth

Job 40:15

Behold now, the great beast which I made with thee; he will eat grass as an ox.

Animals » Paul contends with

Animals » Kindness to: instances of » Jacob, in erecting booths for his cattle

Genesis 33:17

And Jacob will remove to the booths, and he will build for himself a house, and he made booths for his cattle; for this he called the name of the place Booths.

Animals » Menstruation of

Jeremiah 2:24

A wild ass accustomed to the desert in gratifying her soul, panting after the wind in her heat; who shall turn her back? all seeking her will not be wearied; in her new moon they shall find her.

Animals » Food of

Genesis 1:30

And to every living thing of the earth, and to all the birds of the heavens and to every thing creeping upon the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food: and it shall be so.

Animals » Named

Genesis 2:20

And the man will call the names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every living thing of the field; but to the man was not found a help as before him.

Idolatry » Objects of » Animals

Romans 1:23

And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

Meat » Animals

Genesis 9:1-4

And God will praise Noah and his sons, and will say to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given. Every creeping thing which it lives shall be food to you as the green herb. I gave you all things. read more.
But the flesh with its breath, its blood ye shall not eat

Wicked people » Compared with » Animals

2 Peter 2:12

But these, as natural irrational living creatures, having been for catching and destroying, defaming in what things they are ignorant of; and shall be destroyed in their corruption;

Topics on Animals

A Thousand Animals

1 Samuel 25:2

And a man in Maon and his work in Carmel; and the man very great, and to him three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he will be in shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Animals Cut In Pieces

Exodus 29:17

And the ram thou shalt cut into his pieces, and wash his bowels, and his legs, and give upon his pieces and upon his head.

Animals Eating

Exodus 22:5

If a man shall feed a field or vineyard, and send forth the cattle and feed in another field: from the good of his field and from the good of his vineyard shall he recompense.

Animals Eating People

Genesis 37:20

And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams.

Animals Falling

Exodus 21:33

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass:

Animals Forsaking

Job 39:14

For she will leave her eggs to the earth, and she will warm them in the dust;

Animals Going Astray

Exodus 23:4

If thou shalt meet thine enemy's ox or his ass wandering, turning back, thou shalt turn him back to him.

Animals Going To Heaven

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.

Animals Having A Soul

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who shall know the spirit of the sons of man? it ascending to above, and the spirit of cattle, it going downwards to the earth.

Animals Killing

1 Kings 13:24

And he will go, and a lion will find him in the way and kill him: and his corpse will be cast in the way, and the ass standing by it., and the lion standing by the corpse.

Animals Mating

Genesis 30:38

And he set the rods which he stripped, in the flowings of channels of water, when the flock shall come to drink, before the sheep, and they shall be in heat in coming to drink.

Animals Multiplying

Genesis 1:22

And God will praise them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and birds shall multiply in the earth.

Animals Torn To Pieces

Genesis 31:39

The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night

Animals, Care For

Genesis 9:8-10

And God will speak to Noah and to his sons, saying,

Animals, Cruelty Towards

Genesis 33:13-15

And he will say to him, My lord knew that the children are tender, and the sheep and the oxen bringing forth with me, and they overdrive them one day all the flock will die.

Animals, Figurative Use

Genesis 49:9-14

Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?

Animals, religious role of

Zephaniah 1:3

I will take away man and cattle; I will take away the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with. the unjust; and I cut off man from the face of the earth, says Jehovah.

Animals, Types Of

Deuteronomy 14:5

The stag, and the roe, and the fallow-deer, and the roe-buck, and the antelope, and the mountain goat, and the gazelle.

Beating Animals

Numbers 22:23

And the ass will see the messenger of Jehovah standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass will turn from the way and go into the field: and Balaam will strike the ass to turn her in the way.

Binding As Animals

Psalm 118:27

God is Jehovah, and he will shine to us: make ye fast the festival with interweavings, even to the horns of the altar.

Black Animals

Genesis 30:32

I will pass over among all thy sheep this day, removing from thence every sheep speckled and patched, and every sheep black among the lambs; and the patched and speckled among the she-goats; and it shall be my hire.

Bodies Of Animals

Exodus 12:46

In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not bring forth out of the house from the flesh without, and ye shall not break a bone of it

Both Men And Animals Affected

Ezekiel 29:11

The foot of man shall not pass through it, and the foot of cattle shall not pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited forty years.

Both Men And Animals Killed

Genesis 6:7

And Jehovah will say, I will wipe out man whom I formed from above the face of the earth; from man even to cattle, even to the creeping thing and even to the birds of the heavens; and I was grieved that I made them.

Both Men And Animals Saved

Ezekiel 36:11

And I multiplied upon you man and cattle; and they multiplied and were fruitful: and I caused you to dwell according to your former times, and I did good above your beginnings: and ye knew that I am Jehovah.

Clean Animals

Song of Solomon 6:6

Thy teeth as a herd of sheep which went up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and none barren among them.

Corpses Of Animals

Exodus 21:35

And if a man's ox shall strike the ox of his friend and he died, and they shall sell the living ox and divide the silver, and also the dead ox they shall divide.

Driving Out Animals

Genesis 15:11

And the birds will come down upon the dead carcases, and Abram will drive them together.

Fat Animals

Genesis 41:2

And behold, from the river came up seven heifers, fair of look and fat in flesh; and they will feed in marsh grass.

Fat Of Animals

Leviticus 7:23

Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Any fat of ox, and lamb, and goat, ye shall not eat

Fear And Animals

Genesis 9:2

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given.

Feeding Animals

Genesis 24:25

And she will say to him, also straw, and also much fodder to us; also a place to pass the night.

Female Animals

Numbers 15:27

And if one soul shall sin in. error, and he brought a she goat the daughter of a goat, for sin.

Five Animals

Exodus 22:1

If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and slaughter it or sell it, he shall recompense five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Horns Of Animals

Zechariah 1:18

And I shall lift up mine eyes, and see, and behold, four horns

Killing Domesticated Animals

Exodus 12:29

And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.

Killing Wild Animals

Nahum 2:13

Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I burnt her chariot in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I cut of thy prey from the land, and the voice of her messengers shall no more be heard.

Male And Female Animals

Leviticus 3:1

And if his offering a sacrifice of peace, if from the oxen he is bringing near, if a male, if a female, blameless shall he bring it near before Jehovah.

Male Animals

Leviticus 22:19

For your acceptance a blameless male among the cattle, among the sheep, and among the goats.

Miscarrying Animals

Genesis 31:38

These twenty years I am with thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were not barren, and the rams of thy flock, I ate not.

Noting What Animals Eat

Leviticus 11:3

All cleaving the cloven hoof, and splitting, split the cloven hoof, and lifting up rumination among the cattle, ye shall eat it

Putting Animals Down

Genesis 24:11

And he will make his camels to kneel down without the city by the well of waters, at the time of evening, of the going forth to draw water.

Red Animals

Numbers 19:2

This is the law of the precept which to Jehovah commanded, saying, Speak the sons of Israel and they shall take to thee a red, blameless heifer, to which not a blemish in her, and which a yoke was not lifted up upon her.

Relation Of Animals To Man

Genesis 9:2

And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every living thing of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens, upon every thing which shall creep along the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand they were given.

Rules About Killing Animals

Exodus 13:13

And every first-born of the ass, thou shalt redeem with a sheep; and if thou shalt not redeem, thou shalt break his neck: and every first-born of man among thy sons thou shalt redeem.

Satan, Compared With Animals

Psalm 91:3

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin.

Separating Animals

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob separated the lambs, and he will give the faces of the sheep to the banded and every one black among the sheep of Laban: and he will set to himself the flocks, to himself alone, and not put them with Laban's sheep.

Seven Animals

Genesis 7:2

From all clean cattle thou shalt take to thee seven; seven male and female; and from cattle which are not clean, this two, male and female.

Sick Animals

Malachi 1:8

And if ye shall bring near the blind for a sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye shall bring near the lame and the sick, is it not evil? bring A near now to thy governor; will he delight in thee, or lift up thy face? said Jehovah of armies.

Strength Of Animals

Genesis 30:41

And it was in every one conceiving of the strong sheep, and Jacob put the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the floorings, to conceive among the rods.

Taking Animals

Genesis 30:35

And he will remove in that day the he-goats banded and patched, and all the she-goats speckled and patched; every one which being white on it, and every one black among the sheep, and he will give into the hand of his sons.

Ten Animals

Genesis 24:10

And the servant shall take ten camels from the camels of his lord, and will go, and all the goods of his lord in his hand; and he will rise and go to Syria of the rivers to the city of Nahor.

Thighs Of Animals

Exodus 29:22

And take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat covering the bowels, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat which is upon them, and the right leg, for it is a ram of fulness.

Three Animals

1 Samuel 10:3

And pass on from thence and beyond, and thou camest to the oak of Tabor, there three men shall find thee going up to God, to the house of God, one lifting up three kids and one lifting up three rounds of bread, and one lifting up a skin of wine.

Twelve Animals

Numbers 7:87

All the oxen for the burnt-offering, twelve bullocks, the rams, twelve, the lambs, sons of a year, twelve, and their gifts; and the he goats of the goats, twelve, for sin.

Two Animals

Genesis 6:19

And from every living thing of all flesh, two of all shalt thou bring in to the ark, to preserve alive with thee: male and female shall they be.

Unclean Animals

Genesis 7:2

From all clean cattle thou shalt take to thee seven; seven male and female; and from cattle which are not clean, this two, male and female.

Weak Animals

Genesis 30:42

And in the sheep being feeble, he will not put in: and those being feeble, were to Laban, and those being strong, to Jacob.

Wild Animals Devouring

Genesis 37:20

And now, come, and we will kill him, and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil beast devoured him: and we shall see what will be his dreams.

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