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Bible Verses About Fish

18 verses · 6 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”

  2. God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

  3. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

  4. The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

  5. Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

  6. “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

  7. All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

  8. and you detest them. You shall not eat of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.

  9. Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

  10. These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.

  11. You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

  12. It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

  13. It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

  14. So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.

  15. Yeshua said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”

  16. Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.

  17. Yeshua said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

  18. Then Yeshua came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.