They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.

And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:

And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:

But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.