Animals in the Bible

Then God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind; and it was so.

And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.

You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female.

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?

But now ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you.

Have you given the horse strength? Have you clothed his neck with thunder?

Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; he eats grass like an ox.

Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

The high hills are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers.

Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer.

The rock badgers are a feeble folk, yet they make their homes in the crags.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.

My God sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

But one of the elders said to me, Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.

And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.