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Want to know what the Bible says about Birds? Here are 174 Bible verses about Birds 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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Genesis 8:8 NIV
Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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Genesis 8:20 NIV
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
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Leviticus 11:16 NIV
the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,
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Genesis 40:19 NIV
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
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Deuteronomy 22:6 NIV
If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
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Hosea 9:11 NIV
Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird
    no birth, no pregnancy, no conception.
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Isaiah 38:14 NIV
I cried like a swift or thrush,
    I moaned like a mourning dove.
My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.
    I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
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Psalm 68:13 NIV
Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,
    the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,
    its feathers with shining gold.”
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Ecclesiastes 12:4 NIV
when the doors to the street are closed
    and the sound of grinding fades;
when people rise up at the sound of birds,
    but all their songs grow faint;
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Job 12:7 NIV
“But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
    or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
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Ecclesiastes 9:12 NIV
Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
    or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times
    that fall unexpectedly upon them.
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Romans 1:23 NIV
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
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Psalm 8:8 NIV
the birds in the sky,
    and the fish in the sea,
    all that swim the paths of the seas.
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Jeremiah 12:9 NIV
Has not my inheritance become to me
    like a speckled bird of prey
    that other birds of prey surround and attack?
Go and gather all the wild beasts;
    bring them to devour.
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Genesis 15:11 NIV
Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
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Psalm 148:10 NIV
wild animals and all cattle,
    small creatures and flying birds,
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Isaiah 34:11 NIV
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it;
    the great owl and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom
    the measuring line of chaos
    and the plumb line of desolation.
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Job 39:27 NIV
Does the eagle soar at your command
    and build its nest on high?
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Job 39:26 NIV
“Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
    and spread its wings toward the south?
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Leviticus 1:14 NIV
“‘If the offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a dove or a young pigeon.
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