Bible Verses About Fishes
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These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
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These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them.
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Enβgedi even unto Enβeglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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.
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
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