Goat

How Nave’s arranged it

• Designated as one of the ceremonially clean animals to be eaten withDeuteronomy 14:4Leviticus 11:1–8
• Used for foodGenesis 27:91 Samuel 16:20
• For the paschal feastExodus 12:52 Chronicles 35:7
• As a sacrifice by AbrahamGenesis 15:9
• By GideonJudges 6:19
• ManoahJudges 13:19
• Milk of, used for foodProverbs 27:27
• Hair of, used for clothingNumbers 31:20
• Pillows1 Samuel 19:13
• Curtains of the tabernacleExodus 26:7Exodus 35:23Exodus 36:14
• Used for tents
• See Tabernacles

The passages, in Bible order (22)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 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.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 15:91 voice

   “Take me a heifer - עגלה eglah, a she-calf; a she-goat, עז ez, a goat, male or female, but distinguished here by the feminine adjective; משלשת meshullesheth, a three-yearling; a ram, איל ayil; a turtle-dove, תר tor, from which come turtur and turtle; young pigeon, גוזל gozal, a word signifying the young of pigeons and eagles. See Deu 32:11. It is worthy of remark, that every animal allowed or commanded to be sacrificed under the Mosaic law is to be found in this list.

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2. 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.

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3. Exodus 12:5

   Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

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   “Your lamb shall be without blemish,.... Without any spot or defect in it. Maimonides (h) reckons no less than fifty blemishes in a creature, anyone of which makes it unfit for sacrifice, see Lev 21:

   “Without blemish - This is in accordance with the general rule (margin reference): although in this case there is a special reason, since the lamb was in place of the firstborn male in each household. The restriction to the first year is unique, and refers apparently to the condition of perfect innocence in the antitype, the Lamb of God.

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4. 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.

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   “Some of the Gentiles, at the end of their harvest, seethed a kid in it's dam's milk, and sprinkled that milk-pottage in a magical way upon their gardens and fields, to make them fruitful. But Israel must abhor such foolish customs. Is not this rather forbidden, as having some appearance of cruelty?

   “Our physical nature rebels against the thought of making the nourishment of the living a garnish for the dead or the cause of life an accessory to the death of the body.

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5. Exodus 26:7

   You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

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6. 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.

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7. Exodus 36:14

   He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.

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8. Leviticus 11:1–8

   The LORD spoke again to Moses and Aaron, telling them,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:1–82 voices

   “And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... The one being the chief magistrate, and the other the high priest, and both concerned to see the following laws put into execution; according to Jarchi, the Lord spoke to Moses that he might speak to Aaron; but being now in office, and one part of his office being to distinguish between clean and unclean, the following discourse is directed equally to him as to Moses: saying unto them; as follows.

   “Yahweh speaks to Moses and Aaron conjointly. (Compare Lev 13:1; Lev 15:1.) The high priest, in regard to the legal purifications, is treated as co-ordinate with the legislator.

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9. Leviticus 22:27

   “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 22:272 voices

   “Scripture says, "At least grant the offspring to its mother for its first seven days." For if nothing comes to be without reason and milk flows in the mothers for the nourishment of the offspring, then in taking the offspring away from the providential endowment of the milk, a person is doing violence to nature. So Greeks and anyone else who runs the law down ought to blush for shame if the law is generous over irrational beasts. Yet some people actually expose human offspring to abortive death.

   “No victim was to be offered in sacrifice until it was a week old. The meaning of this law appears to be that the animal should realise a distinct existence in becoming less dependent on its mother, and able to provide for its own wants.

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10. Numbers 31:20

    And purify every garment and leather good, everything made of goat’s hair, and every article of wood.”

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11. Deuteronomy 14:4

    These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

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    “These are the beasts which they shall eat,.... That is, which they might lawfully eat of, which were allowed for their food; for they were not obliged to eat of them if they did not choose it: the ox, the sheep, and the goat; which were creatures used in sacrifice, and the only ones, yet nevertheless they might be used for food if chosen.

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12. 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.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:141 voice

    “Fat of kidneys of wheat - Almost every person knows that the kidney is enveloped in a coat of the purest fat in the body of the animal, for which several anatomical reasons might be given. As the kidney itself is to the abundantly surrounding fat, so is the germ of the grain to the lobes or farinaceous parts.

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13. 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.

    ›Commentary on Judges 6:191 voice

    “Unleavened cakes - As being much more quickly baked (compare Gen 19:3) (and as connected with the meat offering). An ephah, containing 3 measures, was the quantity of flour commonly used at one baking Gen 18:6; Exo 16:16. Presented it - A word especially, though not exclusively, proper for offerings to God. See Amo 5:25, where the same word is rendered offered.

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14. Judges 13:19

    Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.

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    “The angel did wondrously - He acted according to his name; he, being wonderful, performed wonderful things; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascending in the flame.

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15. 1 Samuel 16:20

    And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

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16. 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.

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 19:132 voices

    “An image - “Teraphim” (see the margin), an image, or bust in human form, and as large as life, of a kind of household god, to the worship of which the Israelites, and especially women, were much addicted. A pillow - It was probably a quilt or blanket of goats’ hair and of common use as a bed-covering. Whether Michal drew it over the head of the teraphim, as if for warmth, and so covered it, or whether she disposed it about the head so as to look like hair, is not clear.

    Now Michal's name means "reign," because sin reigned over our nature up to that time. And at the very time he himself was born, he [the Lord in the figure of David] went out through a window. And the window indicates the return to the light again of the one who made himself known to those sitting in darkness and the shadow of death.And his image is seen on the bed. For the angel says to those seeking the Lord in the tomb, "Why do you seek the living with the dead? He is not here; he is risen."

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