Bible Verses About Reptiles

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

If you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your borders with frogs:

“‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

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

These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

“‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps, neither shall you make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

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

wild animals and all livestock; small creatures and flying birds;

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.