42 Bible Verses about Goats
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Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.
These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;
Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.
There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.
But he made answer and said to his father, See, all these years I have been your servant, doing your orders in everything: and you never gave me even a young goat so that I might have a feast with my friends:
And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.
And they made curtains of goats' hair for the tent; eleven curtains were made.
And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;
Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.
The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you; in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.
And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.
I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you, Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble. I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)
When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, let him give for his offering a goat, a male without any mark.
And those who had been prisoners, who had come back from a strange land, made burned offerings to the God of Israel, twelve oxen for all Israel, ninety-six male sheep, seventy-seven lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burned offering to the Lord.
When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, then he is to give for his offering a goat, a female without any mark, for the sin which he has done.
And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.
And say to the children of Israel: Take a he-goat for a sin-offering, and a young ox and a lamb, in their first year, without any mark on them, for a burned offering;
And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.
And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.
And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.
King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.
For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy.
And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.
Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark.
And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood. For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean: How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings. Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
From Thematic Bible
Cooking » Instructions » Goats
You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.
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And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
Wicked people » Compared with » Goats
And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
Wicked, the, are compared to » Goats
And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
Topics on Goats
Sacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats
Exodus 29:1This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,
Sacrificing Goats
Leviticus 16:5And let him take from the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin-offering and one male sheep for a burned offering.
Sheep And Goats
Ezekiel 24:5Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.
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