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Want to know what the Bible says about Hunting? Here are 71 Bible verses about Hunting 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 27:3 NIV
Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me.
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Genesis 9:3 NIV
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Genesis 10:9 NIV
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.”
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Genesis 21:20 NIV
God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
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Jeremiah 16:16 NIV
“But now I will send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks.
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Acts 10:13 NIV
Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
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Genesis 1:29-30 NIV
29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food. ” And it was so.
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Proverbs 12:27 NIV
The lazy do not roast any game,
    but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
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Genesis 27:5 NIV
Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back,
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Proverbs 12:10 NIV
The righteous care for the needs of their animals,
    but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.
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Genesis 27:33 NIV
Isaac trembled violently and said, “Who was it, then, that hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it just before you came and I blessed him—and indeed he will be blessed!
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Leviticus 17:13 NIV
“‘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,
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Genesis 27:30 NIV
After Isaac finished blessing him, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, his brother Esau came in from hunting.
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Proverbs 6:5 NIV
Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,
    like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
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Proverbs 1:17 NIV
How useless to spread a net
    where every bird can see it!
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Isaiah 11:6-9 NIV
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.
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Job 10:16 NIV
If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion
    and again display your awesome power against me.
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Genesis 25:27 NIV
The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.
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Psalm 141:9 NIV
Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers,
    from the snares they have laid for me.
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1 Samuel 26:20 NIV
Now do not let my blood fall to the ground far from the presence of the Lord. The king of Israel has come out to look for a flea —as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.
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