Bible Verses About Tortoise
This collection includes 50 passages about Tortoise. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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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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And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
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:
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
He maketh my feet like hindsโ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
He maketh my feet like hindsโ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
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