Bible Verses About Animals

Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Eat not the things that are unclean.

These are the beasts that you shall eat, the ox, and the sheep, and the goat,

The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.

Every beast that divideth the hoof in two parts, and cheweth the cud, you shall eat.

But of them that chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, you shall not eat, such as the camel, the hare, and the cherogril: because they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof, they shall be unclean to you.

The swine also, because it divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, shall be unclean, their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

These shall you eat of all that abide in the waters: All that have fins and scales, you shall eat.

Such as are without fins and scales, you shall not eat, because they are unclean.

All birds that are clean you shall eat.

The unclean eat not: to wit, the eagle, and the grype, and the osprey,

The ringtail, and the vulture, and the kite according to their kind:

And all of the raven's kind:

And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:

The heron, and the swan, and the stork,

And the cormorant, the porphirion, and the night crow,

The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.

Every thing that creepeth, and hath little wings, shall be unclean, and shall not be eaten.

All that is clean, you shall eat.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the birds of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee: and the fishes of the sea shall tell.

To my hearing thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones that have been humbled shall rejoice.

Turn away thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.