15 Bible Verses About Hunting

The Bible permits hunting for food and sets rules for it. Genesis 9:3 gives animals to Noah’s family as food, Leviticus 17:13 tells a hunter to drain the blood of game, and Deuteronomy 22:6-7 says to let a nesting mother bird go. Two hunters are named in Genesis, Nimrod (Genesis 10:9) and Esau (Genesis 25:27), and the hunt of Esau’s game in Genesis 27 sets up the story of Jacob taking his brother’s blessing. Elsewhere the hunter, the net and…