Bible Verses About Birds

God said, “Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open dome of the sky.”

God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that creeps, so that the water swarmed with all kinds of them, and there was every kind of winged bird; and God saw that it was good.

Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, multiply and fill the water of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

So there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.

God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature — each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast”; and that is how it was.

God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, in the likeness of ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.”

So God created humankind in his own image; in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them.

God blessed them: God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth.”

Then God said, “Here! Throughout the whole earth I am giving you as food every seed-bearing plant and every tree with seed-bearing fruit.

And to every wild animal, bird in the air and creature crawling on the earth, in which there is a living soul, I am giving as food every kind of green plant.” And that is how it was.

The fear and dread of you will be upon every wild animal, every bird in the air, every creature populating the ground, and all the fish in the sea; they have been handed over to you.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green plants before, so now I give you everything —

"'The following creatures of the air are to be detestable for you - they are not to be eaten, they are a detestable thing: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey,

the kite, the various kinds of buzzards,

the various kinds of ravens,

the ostrich, the screech-owl, the seagull, the various kinds of hawks,

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

the horned owl, the pelican, the barn owl,

the stork, the various kinds of herons, the hoopoe and the bat.

"'All winged swarming creatures that go on all fours are a detestable thing for you;

"You may eat any clean bird;

but these you are not to eat: eagles, vultures, ospreys,

kites, any kind of buzzard,

any kind of raven,