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Dreaming About Dead Animals: The Bible Gives It No Meaning

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  • Scripture records no dream of dead animals and gives no meaning to one. It keeps no table of symbols.
  • Pharaoh dreams of gaunt cattle, but Joseph derives nothing from what cattle generally signify — he says the interpretation belongs to God (Genesis 41).
  • Ezekiel is set down in a valley of bones “very many” and “very dry” and asked, “Son of man, can these bones live?” His answer is “Sovereign Lord, you alone know” (Ezekiel 37:3).
  • God does not correct that honesty. He tells him to prophesy to the bones: “I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.”
  • Under the law, contact with a dead animal made a person unclean until evening — a matter of ritual purity, not sin and not an omen. Reading omens in animals was forbidden in Israel.

Scripture records no dream of dead animals, and gives no meaning to one. There is no verse to consult, and we will not supply a reading the Bible withholds. But the question underneath — what do we do when we are shown something dead? — is one the Bible answers at length, and in a valley. Does the Bible interpret dreams about dead animals? It does not. Scripture records many dreams and interprets only a few, and each interpretation is…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Ezekiel 37:1-5; Genesis 41:16; Leviticus 11:39-40; Deuteronomy 18:10-12).

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