11 Bible Verses about Fat Animals
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and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.
And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke.
Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.
"Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.
And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.'
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'