Listed among the clean animals that Israel could eat.
Genesis (8) God asks Abram for an offering: Genesis 15:9.
Rebekah helps Jacob deceive Isaac: Genesis 27:9
Jacob prepares to deceive Laban: Genesis 30:32-38
Jacob’s offering to Esau: Genesis 32:14
Joseph’s brothers prepare to deceive Isaac: Genesis 37:31
Exodus (1) An offering: Exodus 12:5
Leviticus (25) Laws regarding Goats and the sacrifice:
Leviticus 1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus 3:12, 4:23-24,28, 5:6, 7:23, 9:3, 10:15,
16:5,7-10,15,18,20-22,26-27, 17:3, 22:19,27, 23:19
Numbers (42) Numbers 7:16 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers 7:22,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,70,76,82 28:22,30 29:5,11,16,19,22,28,31,34,38
Five Goats for a sacrifice of peace offerings
Numbers 7:17 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nahshon …
Numbers 7:23,29,35,41,47,53,59,65,71,77,83,87,88
An offering for Ignorance: Numbers 15:24,27, 18:17
Deuteronomy (3) These are the beasts which ye shall eat:
Deuteronomy 14:4- 5, 32:14
1 Samuel (2) Wild goats: 1 Samuel 24:2
Sign of wealth: 1 Samuel 25:2
2 Chronicles (3) Sign of wealth: 2 Chronicles 17:11
Sin offerings: 2 Chronicles 29:21-23
Ezra (2) Offered burnt offerings: Ezra 6:17, 8:35
Job (1) Questions to Job: Job 39:1
Psalm (4) Psalm 50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
Psalm 50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalm 66:15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
Psalm 104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Proverbs (2) Proverbs 27:26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Proverbs 30:31 A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.
Song of Solomon (2) He uses similitudes: Song of Solomon 4:1, 6:5
Isaiah (2) The Lord is tired of animal Sacrifices: Isaiah 1:11, 34:6
Jeremiah (2) Similitudes: Jeremiah 50:8, 51:40
Ezekiel (6) Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
Judgement is coming: Ezekiel 34:17-18 Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
Offerings required: Ezekiel 43:25 45:23
Daniel (3) Daniel describes a coming King: Daniel 8:5, 8, 21
Speaking of false leaders (shepherds) and the people (goats):
Zechariah (1) Zechariah 10:3 Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.
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