Bible Cross References
The fowl
Psalm 148:10
wild beasts, and all cattle; reptiles, and winged birds;
Genesis 1:20-25
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And God said, Let the waters bring forth reptiles having life, and winged creatures flying above the earth in the firmament of heaven, and it was so.
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And God made great whales, and every living reptile, which the waters brought forth according to their kinds, and every creature that flies with wings according to its kind; and God saw that they were good.
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And God blessed them saying, Increase and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the creatures that fly be multiplied on the earth.
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And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
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And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.
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And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good.
Job 38:39-41
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And will you hunt a prey for the lions? And satisfy the desires of the serpents?
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For they fear in their lairs, crouching, and lying in wait in the woods.
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And who has prepared food for the raven? For its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
Job 39:1-30
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[Say] if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if you have marked the calving of the hinds:
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and if you have numbered the full months of their being with young, and if you have relieved their pangs:
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and have reared their young without fear; and will you loosen their pangs?
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Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: [their young] will go forth, and will not return to them.
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And who is he that sent forth the wild donkey free? And who loosed his bands?
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Whereas I made his habitation the wilderness, and the salt land his coverts.
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He laughs to scorn the multitude of the city, and hears not the chiding of the tax-gatherer.
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He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
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And will the unicorn be willing to serve you, or to lie down at your manger?
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And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow valleys for you in the plain?
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And do you trust him, because his strength is great? And will you commit your works to him?
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And will you believe that he will return to you your seed, and bring it in to your threshing floor?
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The peacock has a beautiful wing: if the stork and the ostrich conceive, [it is worthy] of notice,
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for the ostrich will leave her eggs in the ground, and warm them on the dust,
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and has forgotten that the foot will scatter them, and the wild beasts of the field trample them.
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She has hardened herself against her young ones, as though she bereaved not herself: she labors in vain without fear.
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For God has withheld wisdom from her, and not given her a portion in understanding.
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In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
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Have you invested the horse with strength, and clothed his neck with terror?
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And have you clad him in perfect armor, and made his breast glorious with courage?
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He paws exulting in the plain, and goes forth in strength into the plain.
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He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword.
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The bow and sword resound against him, and his rage will swallow up the ground;
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and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds.
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And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! And afar off, he smells the war with prancing and neighing.
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And does the hawk remain steady by your wisdom, having spread out her wings unmoved, looking toward the region of the south?
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And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
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on a crag of a rock, and in a secret [place]?
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From there he seeks food, his eyes observe from afar.
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And his young ones roll themselves in blood, and wherever the carcasses may be, immediately they are found.
Job 40:15-24
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[ 40:10] But now look at the wild beasts among you; they eat grass like oxen.
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[ 40:11] Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
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[ 40:12] He sets up his tail like a cypress, and his nerves are wrapped together.
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[ 40:13] His sides are sides of brass, and his backbone is as cast iron.
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[ 40:14] This is the chief of the creation of the Lord; made to be played with by His angels.
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[ 40:15] And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, he causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
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[ 40:16] He lies under trees of every kind, by the papyrus, [the] reed, and [the] bulrush.
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[ 40:17] And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.
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[ 40:18] If there should be a flood, he will not perceive it; he trusts that the Jordan will rush up into his mouth.
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[ 40:19] [Yet one] shall take him in his sight; one shall catch him with a cord, and pierce his nose.
Job 41:1-34
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[ 40:20] But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
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[ 40:21] Or will you fasten a ring in his nostril, and bore his lip with a clasp?
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[ 40:22] Will he address you with a petition? Softly, with the voice of a suppliant?
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[ 40:23] And will he make a covenant with you? And will you take him for a perpetual servant?
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[ 40:24] And will you play with him as with a bird? Or bind him as a sparrow for a child?
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[ 40:25] And do the nations feed upon him, and the nations of the Phoenicians share him?
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[ 40:26] And all the ships come together would not be able to bear the mere skin of his tail, neither [shall they carry] his head in fishing vessels.
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[ 40:27] But you shall lay your hand upon him once, remembering the war that is waged by his mouth; and let it not be done anymore.
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[ 41:0] Have you not seen him? And have you not wondered at the things said [of him]?
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[ 41:1] Do you not fear because preparation has been made by Me? For who is there that resists Me?
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[ 41:2] Or who will resist Me, and stand their ground, since the whole world under heaven is Mine?
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[ 41:3] I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.
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[ 41:4] Who will open the face of his garment? And who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?
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[ 41:5] Who will open the doors of his face? Terror is round about his teeth.
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[ 41:6] His inwards are as bronze plates, and the texture of his skin as a smyrite stone.
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[ 41:7] One [part] cleaves fast to another, and the air cannot come between them.
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[ 41:8] They will remain united each to the other: they are closely joined, and cannot be separated.
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[ 41:9] At his sneezing a light shines, and his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star.
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[ 41:10] Out of his mouth proceed as it were burning lamps, and as it were hearths of fire are cast abroad.
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[ 41:11] Out of his nostrils proceeds smoke of a furnace burning with fire of coals.
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[ 41:12] His breath is as live coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.
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[ 41:13] And power is lodged in his neck, before him destruction runs.
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[ 41:14] The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.
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[ 41:15] His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.
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[ 41:16] And when he turns, [he is] a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
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[ 41:17] If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, [neither with] the spear or the breast plate.
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[ 41:18] For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
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[ 41:19] The bow of brass shall not wound him, he deems a slinger as grass.
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[ 41:20] Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
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[ 41:21] His lair is [formed of] sharp points, and all the gold of the sea under him is an immense [quantity] of clay.
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[ 41:22] He makes the deep boil like a bronze caldron, and he regards the sea as a pot of ointment,
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[ 41:23] and the lowest part of the deep as a captive: he reckons the deep as his range.
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[ 41:24] There is nothing upon the earth like him, formed to be sported with by My angels.
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[ 41:25] He beholds every high thing, and he is king of all that are in the waters.