Bible Verses About Reptiles

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.

God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs.

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

These animals are unclean for you among all the crawling creatures. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Every creature that moves along the ground is detestable; it must not be eaten.

Do not eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it crawls on its belly or walks on four or more feet; for such creatures are detestable.

Do not defile yourselves by any crawling creature; do not become unclean or defiled by them.

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.

He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.

wild animals and all cattle, crawling creatures and flying birds,

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.