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Want to know what the Bible says about Eating Animals? Here are 136 Bible verses about Eating Animals from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Luke 14:5 NIV
Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?”
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1 Timothy 4:1-3 NIV
4 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
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Leviticus 7:23-24 NIV
23 “Say to the Israelites: ‘Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24 The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.
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Leviticus 17:13-14 NIV
13 “‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, 14 because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”
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Psalm 147:9 NIV
He provides food for the cattle
    and for the young ravens when they call.
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Deuteronomy 14:6 NIV
You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.
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Malachi 3:6 NIV
“I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
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Psalm 50:10-11 NIV
10 for every animal of the forest is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know every bird in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields are mine.
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Leviticus 11:7 NIV
And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
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Colossians 2:16 NIV
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
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