The Goat
36 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
24 sections
- (Flock of) of the Church
- Bashan Celebrated For
- Clean and Fit for Food
- First-Born of, not Redeemed
- Flocks of, Always Led by a Male
- Jews had Large Flocks of
- Milk of, Used As Food
- Most Profitable to the Owner
- Offered in Sacrifice
- Skin of, often Used As Clothing
- The Arabians Traded In
- The Hair of Made Into Curtains, for Covering the Tabernacle
- The Hair of Made Into Pillows
- The Hair of Offered for Tabernacle
- The Male, Best for Sacrifice
- The Young of Called Kids
- The Young of Considered a Delicacy
- The Young of Fed Near the Shepherds' Tents
- The Young of Given As a Present
- The Young of Kept in Small Flocks
- The Young of not to be Seethed in Milk of Mother
- The Young of Offered at the Passover
- The Young of Offered in Sacrifice
- when Wild Dwelt in the Hills and Rocks
(Flock of) of the Church
- Song of Solomon 4:1 How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
Bashan Celebrated For
- Deuteronomy 32:14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
Clean and Fit for Food
- Deuteronomy 14:4–5 These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat, …
First-Born of, not Redeemed
- Numbers 18:17 But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to splatter their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Flocks of, Always Led by a Male
- Jeremiah 50:8 Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
Jews had Large Flocks of
- Genesis 32:14 200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
- 1 Samuel 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
Milk of, Used As Food
- Proverbs 27:27 You will have plenty of goats’ milk to feed you— food for your household and nourishment for your maidservants.
Most Profitable to the Owner
- Proverbs 27:26 the lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats with the price of a field.
Offered in Sacrifice
- Genesis 15:9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 16:7 Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
Skin of, often Used As Clothing
- Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
The Arabians Traded In
- Ezekiel 27:21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
The Hair of Made Into Curtains, for Covering the Tabernacle
- Exodus 35:26 And all the skilled women whose hearts were stirred spun the goat hair.
- Exodus 36:14–18 He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle — eleven curtains in all. …
The Hair of Made Into Pillows
- 1 Samuel 19:13 Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
The Hair of Offered for Tabernacle
- Exodus 25:4 blue, purple, and scarlet yarn; fine linen and goat hair;
- Exodus 35:23 Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
The Male, Best for Sacrifice
- Leviticus 22:19 must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
- Psalm 50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
The Young of Called Kids
- Genesis 37:31 Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
The Young of Considered a Delicacy
- Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father— the kind he loves.
- Judges 6:19 So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
The Young of Fed Near the Shepherds' Tents
- Song of Solomon 1:8 If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.
The Young of Given As a Present
- Genesis 38:17 “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- Judges 15:1 Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
The Young of Kept in Small Flocks
- 1 Kings 20:27 The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.
The Young of not to be Seethed in Milk of Mother
- Exodus 23:19 Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
The Young of Offered at the Passover
- Exodus 12:5 Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
- 2 Chronicles 35:7 From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
The Young of Offered in Sacrifice
- Leviticus 4:23 When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.
- Leviticus 5:6 and he must bring his guilt offering to the LORD for the sin he has committed: a female lamb or goat from the flock as a sin offering. And the priest will make atonement for him concerning his sin.
when Wild Dwelt in the Hills and Rocks
- 1 Samuel 24:2 So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
- Job 39:1 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
- Psalm 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.