CREEPING THINGS

Passages on this topic · 27

• Genesis 1:26

  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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

• Leviticus 5:2

  “‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

• Leviticus 11:20

  “‘All flying insects that walk on all fours are an abomination to you.

• Leviticus 11:21

  Yet you may eat these: of all winged creeping things that go on all fours, which have legs above their feet, with which to hop on the earth.

• Leviticus 11:22

  Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

• Leviticus 11:23

  But all winged creeping things which have four feet, are an abomination to you.

• Leviticus 11:29

  “‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

• Leviticus 11:30

  the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

• Leviticus 11:31

  These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:32

  On whatever any of them falls when they are dead, it shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it will be clean.

• Leviticus 11:33

  Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

• Leviticus 11:34

  All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:35

  Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:36

  Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

• Leviticus 11:37

  If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

• Leviticus 11:38

  But if water is put on the seed, and part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.

• Leviticus 11:39

  “‘If any animal, of which you may eat, dies; he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:40

  He who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

• Leviticus 11:41

  “‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 11:42

  Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

• Leviticus 11:43

  You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps. You shall not make yourselves unclean with them, that you should be defiled thereby.

• Leviticus 11:44

  For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

• Deuteronomy 14:19

  All winged creeping things are unclean to you. They shall not be eaten.

• Psalms 104:20

  You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

• Psalms 104:25

  There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

• Ezekiel 8:10

  So I went in and looked, and saw every form of creeping things, abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

• Romans 1:23

  and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.