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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"/><title>Topical Bible: Animals</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/topical/a/animals.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newtopical.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/topical/vmenus/proverbs/12-10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmcde/a/animals.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/topical/">Topical</a> > Animals</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="/topical/a/animal_souls.htm" title="Animal Souls">&#9668;</a> Animals <a href="/topical/a/animal's.htm" title="Animal's">&#9658;</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">Jump to: <a href="#top" title="Topical Bible Verses">Topical</a> &#8226; <a href="#cnc" title="Multiversion Concordance">Concordance</a> &#8226; <a href="#thes" title="Bible Thesaurus">Thesaurus</a> &#8226; <a href="#grk" title="Strong's Greek Concordance">Greek</a> &#8226; <a href="#heb" title="Strong's Hebrew Concordance">Hebrew</a> &#8226; <a href="#lib" title="Library">Library</a> &#8226; <a href="#sub" title="Subtopics">Subtopics</a> &#8226; <a href="#rel" title="Related Terms">Terms</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><a name="te" id="te"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Encyclopedia</div>In the Bible, animals play a significant role in the narrative of creation, human history, and divine revelation. They are mentioned frequently throughout the Scriptures, serving as symbols, sacrifices, and companions to humanity. The Berean Standard Bible provides numerous references to animals, highlighting their importance in biblical theology and daily life.<br><br><b>Creation and Dominion</b><br><br>The account of creation in Genesis establishes the foundational relationship between humans and animals. On the fifth and sixth days, God created the animals, filling the sea, sky, and land with diverse forms of life. <a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Genesis 1:24-25</a> states, "And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.' And it was so." This passage underscores the diversity and intentionality of God's creation.<br><br>Humans are given dominion over animals, as seen in <a href="/genesis/1-28.htm">Genesis 1:28</a> : "God blessed them and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.'" This dominion implies stewardship and responsibility, reflecting humanity's role as caretakers of God's creation.<br><br><b>Animals in Sacrificial Systems</b><br><br>Animals are central to the sacrificial systems outlined in the Old Testament. They serve as offerings for atonement, thanksgiving, and worship. The book of Leviticus provides detailed instructions for various sacrifices, including burnt offerings, sin offerings, and peace offerings. <a href="/leviticus/1-3.htm">Leviticus 1:3</a> specifies, "If one's offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer an unblemished male. He must present it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted by the LORD."<br><br>The sacrificial system foreshadows the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the "Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world" (<a href="/john/1-29.htm">John 1:29</a>). The use of animals in sacrifice points to the necessity of atonement and the seriousness of sin.<br><br><b>Symbolism and Metaphors</b><br><br>Animals are frequently used as symbols and metaphors throughout the Bible. The lion, for example, represents strength and majesty, as seen in <a href="/proverbs/30-30.htm">Proverbs 30:30</a> : "a lion, mighty among beasts, and refusing to retreat before anything." Conversely, the serpent symbolizes deceit and evil, as in <a href="/genesis/3.htm">Genesis 3:1</a> : "Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made."<br><br>Sheep are often used to symbolize God's people, with God depicted as the shepherd. <a href="/psalms/23.htm">Psalm 23:1</a> famously begins, "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." This imagery conveys care, guidance, and protection.<br><br><b>Animals in Prophecy and Eschatology</b><br><br>Prophetic literature often includes animals in its imagery, conveying messages about future events and divine judgment. In <a href="/bsb/daniel/7.htm">Daniel 7</a>, various beasts represent kingdoms and empires, illustrating the rise and fall of earthly powers. Similarly, the book of Revelation uses animal imagery to depict apocalyptic visions, such as the four horsemen (<a href="/revelation/6.htm">Revelation 6:1-8</a>) and the beast from the sea (<a href="/revelation/13.htm">Revelation 13:1-2</a>).<br><br><b>Dietary Laws and Cleanliness</b><br><br>The Mosaic Law includes specific regulations regarding clean and unclean animals, affecting dietary practices and ritual purity. <a href="/bsb/leviticus/11.htm">Leviticus 11</a> outlines these distinctions, with certain animals deemed unclean for consumption. <a href="/leviticus/11-3.htm">Leviticus 11:3</a> states, "You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud."<br><br>These dietary laws served to set Israel apart as a holy nation and to teach principles of obedience and separation from pagan practices. In the New Testament, these restrictions are lifted, as seen in <a href="/acts/10-15.htm">Acts 10:15</a> : "The voice spoke to him a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.'"<br><br><b>Companionship and Service</b><br><br>Animals also serve as companions and helpers to humans. The bond between humans and animals is evident in the account of Noah's Ark, where animals are preserved alongside Noah's family (Genesis 6-9). Additionally, animals such as donkeys, camels, and oxen are used for transportation and labor, highlighting their practical importance in ancient societies.<br><br>In summary, animals in the Bible are integral to understanding God's creation, human responsibility, and the unfolding of redemptive history. They are woven into the fabric of biblical narrative, serving as symbols, sacrifices, and companions, reflecting the complexity and beauty of God's world.<a name="top" id="top"></a><div class="vheading2">Topical Bible Verses</div><span class="rtext"><a href="/proverbs/12-10.htm">Proverbs 12:10</a></span><br>A righteous man regards the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Genesis 1:24</a></span><br>And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/1-30.htm">Genesis 1:30</a></span><br>And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creeps on the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/8-20.htm">Genesis 8:20</a></span><br>And Noah built an altar to the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/10-29.htm">Matthew 10:29</a></span><br>Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/matthew/6-26.htm">Matthew 6:26</a></span><br>Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/12-7.htm">Ecclesiastes 12:7</a></span><br>Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it.<br><span class="source">Topicalbible.org</span><p><a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/4263b.htm"><span class="l">4263b. probaton -- small <b>animals</b> in a herd, esp. sheep</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 4263a, 4263b. probaton. 4264 . small <b>animals</b> in a herd, esp. <b>...</b> Word Origin<br> from probaino Definition small <b>animals</b> in a herd, esp. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4263b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p><a href="/greek/3577.htm"><span class="l">3577. notos -- the back</span></a> <br><b>...</b> the back. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: notos Phonetic Spelling:<br> (no&#39;-tos) Short Definition: the back of men or <b>animals</b> Definition: the back <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3577.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/5074.htm"><span class="l">5074. tetrapous -- four-footed</span></a> <br><b>...</b> footed. Word Origin from tessares and pous Definition four-footed NASB Word<br> Usage four-footed <b>animals</b> (3). four-footed animal. From <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5074.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3551.htm"><span class="l">3551. nomos -- that which is assigned, hence usage, law</span></a> <br><b>...</b> From a primary nemo (to parcel out, especially food or grazing to <b>animals</b>); law<br> (through the idea of prescriptive usage), genitive case (regulation), specially <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3551.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/4967.htm"><span class="l">4967. sphage -- slaughter</span></a> <br><b>...</b> slaughter. From sphazo; butchery (of <b>animals</b> for food or sacrifice, or (figuratively)<br> of men (destruction)) -- slaughter. see GREEK sphazo. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4967.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/129.htm"><span class="l">129. haima -- blood</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Of uncertain derivation; blood, literally (of men or <b>animals</b>), figuratively (the<br> juice of grapes) or specially (the atoning blood of Christ); by implication <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/129.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/359.htm"><span class="l">359. analusis -- a loosing, departure</span></a> <br><b>...</b> departure from this life Definition: a loosing, departing, departure (from this<br> life); (Probably a metaphor from the yoking and unyoking of transport <b>animals</b>). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/359.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p><a href="/greek/3803.htm"><span class="l">3803. pagis -- a trap, snare</span></a> <br><b>...</b> 3803 (from 4078 , &quot; a trap&quot;) -- properly, a trap set for <b>animals</b>; (figuratively)<br> a that robs someone of their spiritual liberties (the Lord wishes to give). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3803.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><p><a href="/greek/5207.htm"><span class="l">5207. huios -- a son</span></a> <br><b>...</b> son, child, foal. Apparently a primary word; a &quot;son&quot; (sometimes of <b>animals</b>), used<br> very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship -- child, foal, son. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5207.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 8k</font><p><a href="/greek/2905.htm"><span class="l">2905. kraugazo -- to cry out</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Cognate: 2905 (from 2906 , &quot;clamor&quot; which is derived from 2896 , &quot;to cry out&quot;) --<br> properly, the loud bay (croaking) of <b>animals</b>; to cry out with loud screaming <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2905.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 7k</font><a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/2373.htm"><span class="l">2373. chazeh -- breast (of <b>animals</b>)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 2372, 2373. chazeh. 2374 . breast (of <b>animals</b>). Transliteration: chazeh<br> Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-zeh&#39;) Short Definition: breast. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2373.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2421b.htm"><span class="l">2421b. chayyah -- living thing, animal</span></a><br><b>...</b> Word Origin from chayah Definition living thing, animal NASB Word Usage <b>animals</b><br> (2), appetite (1), beast (27), beasts (43), creature (2), creatures (3), life (9 <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2421b.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2966.htm"><span class="l">2966. terephah -- torn animal, torn flesh</span></a><br><b>...</b> prey, Flocks devoured by <b>animals</b>. Feminine (collectively) of tereph; prey, ie Flocks<br> devoured by <b>animals</b> -- ravin, (that which was) torn (of beasts, in pieces). <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2966.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm"><span class="l">1471. goy -- nation, people</span></a><br><b>...</b> go&#39;-ee}; apparently from the same root as gevah (in the sense of massing); a foreign<br> nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of <b>animals</b>, or a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/1471.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4908.htm"><span class="l">4908. mishkan -- dwelling place, tabernacle</span></a><br><b>...</b> From shakan; a residence (including a shepherd&#39;s hut, the lair of <b>animals</b>, figuratively,<br> the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4908.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/4685.htm"><span class="l">4685. matsowd -- siegeworks</span></a><br><b>...</b> Or (feminine) mtsowdah {mets-o-daw&#39;}; or mtsodah {mets-o-daw&#39;}; from tsuwd; a net<br> (for capturing <b>animals</b> or fishes) -- also (by interchange for mtsad) a <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/4685.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 5k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/5116.htm"><span class="l">5116. naveh -- abode of shepherd or flocks, habitation</span></a><br><b>...</b> at home; hence (by implication of satisfaction) lovely; also (noun) a home, of God<br> (temple), men (residence), flocks (pasture), or wild <b>animals</b> (den) -- comely <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/5116.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/2873.htm"><span class="l">2873. tabach -- to slaughter, butcher, slay</span></a><br><b>...</b> kill, make slaughter, slay. A primitive root; to slaughter (<b>animals</b> or men) -- kill,<br> (make) slaughter, slay. 2872, 2873. tabach. 2874 . Strong&#39;s Numbers. <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/2873.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/6354.htm"><span class="l">6354. pachath -- a pit</span></a><br><b>...</b> hole, pit, snare. Probably from an unused root apparently meaning to dig; a pit,<br> especially for catching <b>animals</b> -- hole, pit, snare. 6353, 6354. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/6354.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><p> <a href="/hebrew/7409.htm"><span class="l">7409. rekesh -- steeds</span></a><br><b>...</b> From rakash; a relay of <b>animals</b> on a post-route (as stored up for that purpose);<br> by implication, a courser -- dromedary, mule, swift beast. see HEBREW rakash. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/hebrew/7409.htm</font><font color="#ff6600" size="-1"> - 6k</font><a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_hope_is_in_dumb.htm"><span class="l">Whether Hope is in Dumb <b>Animals</b>?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE IRASCIBLE PASSIONS, AND FIRST, OF HOPE AND DESPAIR (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether<br> hope is in dumb <b>animals</b>? <b>...</b> Therefore there is no hope in dumb <b>animals</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether hope is in dumb.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_plants_and_animals.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Plants and <b>Animals</b> Will Remain in this Renewal?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE QUALITY OF THE WORLD AFTER THE JUDGMENT (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether the<br> plants and <b>animals</b> will remain in this renewal? Objection <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the plants and animals.htm</font><p><a href="/library/lactantius/a_treatise_on_the_anger_of_god_addressed_to_donatus/chap_vii_of_man_and_the.htm"><span class="l">Of Man, and the Brute <b>Animals</b>, and Religion.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chap. VII."Of Man, and the Brute <b>Animals</b>, and Religion. Though philosophers<br> have often turned aside from reason through their <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../a treatise on the anger of god addressed to donatus/chap vii of man and the.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_command_belongs_to_irrational.htm"><span class="l">Whether Command Belongs to Irrational <b>Animals</b>?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> OF THE ACTS COMMANDED BY THE WILL (NINE ARTICLES) Whether command belongs to irrational<br> <b>animals</b>? <b>...</b> Therefore command is to be found in irrational <b>animals</b>. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether command belongs to irrational.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_souls_of_brute.htm"><span class="l">Whether the Souls of Brute <b>Animals</b> are Subsistent?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> TREATISE ON MAN (QQ -102)OF MAN WHO IS COMPOSED OF A SPIRITUAL AND A CORPOREAL<br> SUBSTANCE: AND IN THE Whether the souls of brute <b>animals</b> are subsistent? <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the souls of brute.htm</font><p><a href="/library/unknown/recognitions_of_clement_/chapter_xxv_plants_and_animals.htm"><span class="l">Plants and <b>Animals</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Book VIII. Chapter XXV."Plants and <b>Animals</b>. &quot;But what shall I say of plants,<br> and what of <b>animals</b>? Is it not providence that has <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xxv plants and animals.htm</font><p><a href="/library/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_there_is_anything_voluntary_2.htm"><span class="l">Whether There is Anything Voluntary in Irrational <b>Animals</b>?</span></a> <br><b>...</b> ON HUMAN ACTS: ACTS PECULIAR TO MAN (QQ -21)OF THE VOLUNTARY AND THE INVOLUNTARY<br> (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether there is anything voluntary in irrational <b>animals</b>? <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there is anything voluntary 2.htm</font><p><a href="/library/alexander/of_the_manichaeans/chapter_xiv_noxious_animals_worshipped_by.htm"><span class="l">Noxious <b>Animals</b> Worshipped by the Egyptians; Man by Arts an Evil <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> Chapter XIV."Noxious <b>Animals</b> Worshipped by the Egyptians; Man by Arts an Evil-Doer;<br> Lust and Injustice Corrected by Laws and Discipline; Contingent and <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../alexander/of the manichaeans/chapter xiv noxious animals worshipped by.htm</font><p><a href="/library/lactantius/the_divine_institutes/chap_xii_that_animals_were_not.htm"><span class="l">That <b>Animals</b> were not Produced Spontaneously, but by a Divine <b>...</b></span></a> <br><b>...</b> XII."That <b>Animals</b> Were Not Produced Spontaneously, But by a Divine Arrangement,<br> of Which God Would Have Given Us the Knowledge, If It Were Advantageous for <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xii that animals were not.htm</font><p><a href="/library/basil/basil_letters_and_select_works/homily_ix_the_creation_of.htm"><span class="l">The Creation of Terrestrial <b>Animals</b>.</span></a> <br><b>...</b> Homily IX. The creation of terrestrial <b>animals</b>. <b>...</b> True tyrant of <b>animals</b>, he, in<br> his natural arrogance, admits but few to share his honours. <b>...</b> <br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily ix the creation of.htm</font><a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/a/animals.htm"><span class="l"><b>Animals</b> (224 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Multi-Version Concordance <b>Animals</b> (224 Occurrences). Mark <b>...</b> Satan. He was with<br> the wild <b>animals</b>; and the angels were serving him. (WEB NIV). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/a/animals.htm - 37k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/cud.htm"><span class="l">Cud (9 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> 1. (n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating<br><b>animals</b> from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/cud.htm - 11k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/chew.htm"><span class="l">Chew (5 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Among the <b>animals</b> considered clean are therefore included the ox, the sheep, the<br> goat, the hart, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the pygarg, the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/chew.htm - 9k</font><p><a href="/topical/z/zoology.htm"><span class="l">Zoology</span></a><br><b>...</b> which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution,<br> classification, habits, and distribution of all <b>animals</b>, both living and <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/z/zoology.htm - 18k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/crawling.htm"><span class="l">Crawling (20 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Crawling (20 Occurrences). Acts 10:12 in which were all kinds of four-footed <b>animals</b><br> of the earth, wild <b>animals</b>, reptiles, and birds of the sky. (See NAS). <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/crawling.htm - 12k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/four-footed.htm"><span class="l">Four-footed (7 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Four-footed (7 Occurrences). Acts 10:12 in which were all kinds of four-footed <b>animals</b><br> of the earth, wild <b>animals</b>, reptiles, and birds of the sky. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/four-footed.htm - 8k</font><p><a href="/topical/f/firstling.htm"><span class="l">Firstling (8 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The first produce or offspring; -- said of <b>animals</b>,<br> especially domestic <b>animals</b>; as, the firstlings of his flock. <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/f/firstling.htm - 15k</font><p><a href="/topical/c/creeping.htm"><span class="l">Creeping (43 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> the earth.&quot; The principal passages where these words occur are the accounts of the<br> Creation and the Flood and the references to unclean <b>animals</b> in Leviticus <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/c/creeping.htm - 21k</font><p><a href="/topical/d/drenched.htm"><span class="l">Drenched (11 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it<br> be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the <b>animals</b> in the <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/d/drenched.htm - 10k</font><p><a href="/topical/p/porcupine.htm"><span class="l">Porcupine (3 Occurrences)</span></a><br><b>...</b> The hedgehog is also called kibbabat-ush-shauk, or &quot;ball of spines.&quot; These two <b>animals</b><br> are both found in Syria and Palestine, and, while both have spines, they <b>...</b><br><font color="#ff6600" size="-1">/p/porcupine.htm - 11k</font><p><a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/Noahs-ark-animals.html">How did Noah fit all the animals on the Ark? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/animals-clean-unclean.html">What made some animals clean and others unclean (Genesis 7)? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/animals-destroyed-Flood.html">Why did God also destroy animals in the Flood (Genesis 6-8)? &#124; GotQuestions.org</a><br /><br /><a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> &#8226; <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> &#8226; <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> &#8226; <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> &#8226; <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div><span class="encheading">Animals (224 Occurrences)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/mark/1-13.htm">Mark 1:13</a></span><br />He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild <span class="boldtext">animals</span>; and the angels were serving him. <br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/7-42.htm">Acts 7:42</a></span><br />But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,'Did you offer to me slain <span class="boldtext">animals</span> and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/10-12.htm">Acts 10:12</a></span><br />in which were all kinds of four-footed <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.<br /><span class="source">(WEB WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/11-6.htm">Acts 11:6</a></span><br />When I had looked intently at it, I considered, and saw the four-footed <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the earth, wild animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky.<br /><span class="source">(WEB WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/15-20.htm">Acts 15:20</a></span><br />But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of <span class="boldtext">animals</span> put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/15-29.htm">Acts 15:29</a></span><br />that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/21-25.htm">Acts 21:25</a></span><br />But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of <span class="boldtext">animals</span> put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/acts/23-24.htm">Acts 23:24</a></span><br />He asked them to provide <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/romans/1-23.htm">Romans 1:23</a></span><br />and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and creeping things.<br /><span class="source">(WEB WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-32.htm">1 Corinthians 15:32</a></span><br />If I fought with <span class="boldtext">animals</span> at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/1_corinthians/15-39.htm">1 Corinthians 15:39</a></span><br />All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, another of fish, and another of birds.<br /><span class="source">(WEB RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/titus/1-12.htm">Titus 1:12</a></span><br />One of their own number--a Prophet who is a countryman of theirs--has said, "Cretans are always liars, dangerous <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, idle gluttons."<br /><span class="source">(WEY)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/hebrews/13-11.htm">Hebrews 13:11</a></span><br />For the bodies of those <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.<br /><span class="source">(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/james/3-7.htm">James 3:7</a></span><br />For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;<br /><span class="source">(DBY WBS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/2_peter/2-12.htm">2 Peter 2:12</a></span><br />But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural <span class="boldtext">animals</span> to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,<br /><span class="source">(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/jude/1-10.htm">Jude 1:10</a></span><br />But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.<br /><span class="source">(DBY NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/revelation/6-8.htm">Revelation 6:8</a></span><br />And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the earth was given to him.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/1-24.htm">Genesis 1:24</a></span><br />God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/1-25.htm">Genesis 1:25</a></span><br />God made the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> 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.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/3-1.htm">Genesis 3:1</a></span><br />Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said,'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/3-14.htm">Genesis 3:14</a></span><br />Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/6-7.htm">Genesis 6:7</a></span><br />Yahweh said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/6-20.htm">Genesis 6:20</a></span><br />Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/7-2.htm">Genesis 7:2</a></span><br />You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/7-8.htm">Genesis 7:8</a></span><br />Clean <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, animals that are not clean, birds, and everything that creeps on the ground<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/7-21.htm">Genesis 7:21</a></span><br />All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/7-23.htm">Genesis 7:23</a></span><br />And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and the fowl of heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.<br /><span class="source">(WBS NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/8-1.htm">Genesis 8:1</a></span><br />God remembered Noah, all the <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.<br /><span class="source">(WEB DBY NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/8-17.htm">Genesis 8:17</a></span><br />Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, including birds, livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply on the earth."<br /><span class="source">(See NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/8-19.htm">Genesis 8:19</a></span><br />All the <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, all the creeping things, and all the fowl everything that moves on the earth, after their kinds, went out of the ark.<br /><span class="source">(DBY NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/8-20.htm">Genesis 8:20</a></span><br />Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/9-10.htm">Genesis 9:10</a></span><br />and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark every animal of the earth.<br /><span class="source">(DBY NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/24-20.htm">Genesis 24:20</a></span><br />And after putting the water from her vessel into the <span class="boldtext">animals</span>' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/29-7.htm">Genesis 29:7</a></span><br />He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/30-40.htm">Genesis 30:40</a></span><br />Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn't put them into Laban's flock.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/30-41.htm">Genesis 30:41</a></span><br />It happened, whenever the stronger of the flock conceived, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/30-42.htm">Genesis 30:42</a></span><br />but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/31-39.htm">Genesis 31:39</a></span><br />That which was torn of <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, I didn't bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/32-17.htm">Genesis 32:17</a></span><br />He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying,'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/33-13.htm">Genesis 33:13</a></span><br />Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/34-23.htm">Genesis 34:23</a></span><br />Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their <span class="boldtext">animals</span> be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/36-6.htm">Genesis 36:6</a></span><br />Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/genesis/45-17.htm">Genesis 45:17</a></span><br />Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers,'Do this. Load your <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/8-17.htm">Exodus 8:17</a></span><br />They did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust of the earth, and there were lice on man, and on animal; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/8-18.htm">Exodus 8:18</a></span><br />The magicians tried with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they couldn't. There were lice on man, and on animal.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-7.htm">Exodus 9:7</a></span><br />Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the livestock of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-9.htm">Exodus 9:9</a></span><br />It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-10.htm">Exodus 9:10</a></span><br />They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking forth with boils on man and on animal.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-22.htm">Exodus 9:22</a></span><br />Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch forth your hand toward the sky, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on animal, and on every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt."<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/9-25.htm">Exodus 9:25</a></span><br />The hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and animal; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/12-12.htm">Exodus 12:12</a></span><br />For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/12-21.htm">Exodus 12:21</a></span><br />Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/20-10.htm">Exodus 20:10</a></span><br />but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/22-31.htm">Exodus 22:31</a></span><br />"You shall be holy men to me, therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by <span class="boldtext">animals</span> in the field. You shall cast it to the dogs.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/23-11.htm">Exodus 23:11</a></span><br />but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/23-26.htm">Exodus 23:26</a></span><br />All your <span class="boldtext">animals</span> will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.<br /><span class="source">(BBE)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/exodus/23-29.htm">Exodus 23:29</a></span><br />I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the field multiply against you.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/1-2.htm">Leviticus 1:2</a></span><br />"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them,'When anyone of you offers an offering to Yahweh, you shall offer your offering of the livestock, from the herd and from the flock.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/5-2.htm">Leviticus 5:2</a></span><br />Or if a soul shall touch any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, and it shall be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.<br /><span class="source">(WBS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/7-24.htm">Leviticus 7:24</a></span><br />The fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, may be used for any other service, but you shall in no way eat of it.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-2.htm">Leviticus 11:2</a></span><br />"Speak to the children of Israel, saying,'These are the living things which you may eat among all the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> that are on the earth.<br /><span class="source">(WEB DBY NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-3.htm">Leviticus 11:3</a></span><br />Whatever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud among the <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, that you may eat.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-23.htm">Leviticus 11:23</a></span><br />But all other flying creeping <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, which have four feet, shall be an abomination to you.<br /><span class="source">(WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-26.htm">Leviticus 11:26</a></span><br />"'Every animal which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-27.htm">Leviticus 11:27</a></span><br />Whatever goes on its paws, among all <span class="boldtext">animals</span> that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.<br /><span class="source">(WEB RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-29.htm">Leviticus 11:29</a></span><br />And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of that sort;<br /><span class="source">(BBE WBS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-39.htm">Leviticus 11:39</a></span><br />"'If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-42.htm">Leviticus 11:42</a></span><br />Whatever goeth upon the belly, and whatever goeth upon all four, or whatever hath more feet among all creeping <span class="boldtext">animals</span> that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.<br /><span class="source">(WBS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/11-46.htm">Leviticus 11:46</a></span><br />"'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/17-15.htm">Leviticus 17:15</a></span><br />"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/19-19.htm">Leviticus 19:19</a></span><br />"'You shall keep my statutes. "'You shall not crossbreed different kinds of <span class="boldtext">animals</span>. "'you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; "'neither shall there come upon on you a garment made of two kinds of material. <br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/20-25.htm">Leviticus 20:25</a></span><br />"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/22-8.htm">Leviticus 22:8</a></span><br />That which dies of itself, or is torn by <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/22-22.htm">Leviticus 22:22</a></span><br />Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore, you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.<br /><span class="source">(See RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/22-25.htm">Leviticus 22:25</a></span><br />Neither shall you offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'" <br /><span class="source">(See RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/25-7.htm">Leviticus 25:7</a></span><br />For your livestock also, and for the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/26-6.htm">Leviticus 26:6</a></span><br />"'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil <span class="boldtext">animals</span> out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/26-22.htm">Leviticus 26:22</a></span><br />I will send the wild <span class="boldtext">animals</span> among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/27-26.htm">Leviticus 27:26</a></span><br />"'Only the firstborn among <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/leviticus/27-27.htm">Leviticus 27:27</a></span><br />If it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/7-87.htm">Numbers 7:87</a></span><br />all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, the rams twelve, the male lambs a year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the male goats for a sin offering twelve;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/7-88.htm">Numbers 7:88</a></span><br />and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after it was anointed.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/8-17.htm">Numbers 8:17</a></span><br />For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/18-15.htm">Numbers 18:15</a></span><br />Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean <span class="boldtext">animals</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/20-4.htm">Numbers 20:4</a></span><br />Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our <span class="boldtext">animals</span>?<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/28-31.htm">Numbers 28:31</a></span><br />Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-11.htm">Numbers 31:11</a></span><br />They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-26.htm">Numbers 31:26</a></span><br />"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-30.htm">Numbers 31:30</a></span><br />Of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, even of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh."<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/31-47.htm">Numbers 31:47</a></span><br />even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animal, and gave them to the Levites, who performed the duty of the tabernacle of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/numbers/35-3.htm">Numbers 35:3</a></span><br />The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their <span class="boldtext">animals</span>.<br /><span class="source">(WEB)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-35.htm">Deuteronomy 2:35</a></span><br />only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/3-7.htm">Deuteronomy 3:7</a></span><br />But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-14.htm">Deuteronomy 5:14</a></span><br />but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-22.htm">Deuteronomy 7:22</a></span><br />Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> of the field increase on you.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm">Deuteronomy 12:15</a></span><br />Only you may put to death <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.<br /><span class="source">(BBE NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-21.htm">Deuteronomy 12:21</a></span><br />If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.<br /><span class="source">(See NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-4.htm">Deuteronomy 14:4</a></span><br />These are the <span class="boldtext">animals</span> which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV NIV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/14-6.htm">Deuteronomy 14:6</a></span><br />Every animal that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the <span class="boldtext">animals</span>, that may you eat.<br /><span class="source">(WEB NAS RSV)</span><p><span class="rtext"><a href="/deuteronomy/20-14.htm">Deuteronomy 20:14</a></span><br />but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.<br /><span class="source">(See NAS)</span><p><a href="/concordance/a/animals2.htm"></a><a name="sub" id="sub"></a><div class="vheading2">Subtopics</div><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/a/animals.htm">Animals</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/a/animals_going_to_heaven.htm">Animals Going to Heaven</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/a/animals--beasts_symbolical.htm">Animals: Beasts Symbolical</a></p><p class="pspc"><a href="/topical/naves/a/animals--belong_to_god.htm">Animals: Belong to God</a></p><p class="pspc"><a 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