Bible Verses About Reptiles

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.”

If you refuse to let them go, I will strike all your territory with frogs.

"'The following are unclean for you among the small creatures that swarm on the ground: the weasel, the mouse, the various kinds of lizards,

the gecko, the land crocodile, the skink, the sand-lizard and the chameleon.

They are unclean crawling creatures; whoever touches them when they are dead will be unclean until evening.

A person who eats meat from its carcass or carries its carcass is to wash his clothes; he will be unclean until evening.

"'Any creature that swarms on the ground is a detestable thing; it is not to be eaten -

whatever moves on its stomach, goes on all fours, or has many legs -all creatures that swarm on the ground; you are not to eat them, because they are a detestable thing.

You are not to make yourselves detestable with any of these swarming, crawling creatures; do not make yourselves unclean with them, do not defile yourselves with them.

do not become corrupt and make yourselves a carved image having the shape of any figure - not a representation of a human being, male or female,

or a representation of anything that creeps along on the ground, or a representation of any fish in the water below the shoreline.

who led you through the vast and fearsome desert, with its poisonous snakes, scorpions and waterless, thirsty ground; who brought water out of flint rock for you;

their wine is snake poison, the cruel venom of vipers.

He could discuss trees, from the cedar in the L'vanon to the hyssop growing out of the wall; he could discuss wild animals, poultry, reptiles and fish.

With his Spirit he spreads the heavens; his hand pierces the fleeing serpent.

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

Their venom is like snake's venom; they are like a serpent that stops its ears,

May they be like a slug that melts as it moves, like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.

You will tread down lions and snakes, young lions and serpents you will trample underfoot.

wild animals and all livestock, creeping reptiles, flying birds,

but in the end, it bites like a serpent -yes, it strikes like a poisonous snake.

The leech has two daughters; they cry, "Give! Give!" Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough!"

An infant will play on a cobra's hole, a toddler put his hand in a viper's nest.