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Bible Verses About Reptiles

This noindex topical Bible draft for Reptiles was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Torrey's New Topical Textbook. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 21 topic entries and produced 30 parsed verse references for review.

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30 references

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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.

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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

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Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:

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And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

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And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

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These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

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And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

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The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

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Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

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Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

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