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Bible Verses About Fish

18 verses · 6 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

  2. And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

  3. And God blesseth them, saying, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and the fowl let multiply in the earth:'

  4. and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea--into your hand they have been given.

  5. Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

  6. `This ye do eat of all which are in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

  7. and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which liveth, which is in the waters--an abomination they are to you;

  8. yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate.

  9. `Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters--an abomination it is to you.

  10. `This ye do eat of all that are in the waters; all that hath fins and scales ye do eat;

  11. and anything which hath not fins and scales ye do not eat; unclean it is to you.

  12. And it hath come to pass, every living creature that teemeth, whithersoever the streams come, doth live: and there hath been great abundance of fish, for these waters have come thither, and they are healed; and every thing whither the stream cometh hath lived.

  13. And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.

  14. when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread.

  15. Jesus saith to them, `Bring ye from the fishes that ye caught now;'

  16. Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent.

  17. Jesus saith to them, `Come ye, dine;' and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of him, `Who art thou?' knowing that it is the Lord;

  18. Jesus, therefore, doth come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner;