Bible Verses About Reptiles

And God saith, `Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after its kind:' and it is so.

And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;

`And this is to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole;

these are the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

`And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;

any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth--ye do not eat them, for they are an abomination;

ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby.

lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female--

a form of any creeping thing on the ground--a form of any fish which is in the waters under the earth;

who is causing thee to go in the great and the terrible wilderness--burning serpent, and scorpion, and thirst--where there is no water; who is bringing out to thee waters from the flinty rock;

The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

and he speaketh concerning the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon, even unto the hyssop that is coming out in the wall, and he speaketh concerning the cattle, and concerning the fowl, and concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fishes,

By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

The wild beast, and all cattle, Creeping thing, and winged bird,

Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

To the leech are two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;'

And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.