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‘Calf’ in the Bible – All 97 Bible verses / Bible passages

Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Calf’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.

The term ‘Calf’ occurs 97 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Genesis

Genesis 18:7 In truth, he himself ran to the herd, and he took a calf from there, very tender and very good, and he gave it to a servant, who hurried and boiled it.Genesis 18:7

Genesis 18:8 Likewise, he took butter and milk, and the calf which he had boiled, and he placed it before them. Yet truly, he himself stood near them under the tree.Genesis 18:8

Number of the word / term Calf in Genesis: 2

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Exodus

Exodus 29:1 “But you shall also do this, so that they may be consecrated to me in the priesthood: Take a calf from the herd, and two immaculate rams,Exodus 29:1

Exodus 29:3 And, having placed them in baskets, you shall offer them, along with the calf and the two rams.Exodus 29:3

Exodus 29:10 you shall bring forward also the calf, in the presence of the tabernacle of the testimony. And Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon its head.Exodus 29:10

Exodus 29:12 And taking some of the blood of the calf, you shall place it upon the horns of the altar with your finger, but the remainder of the blood you shall pour next to its base.Exodus 29:12

Exodus 29:14 Yet truly, the flesh of the calf, and the hide and the dung, you shall burn outside, beyond the camp, because it is for sin.Exodus 29:14

Exodus 29:36 and you shall offer a calf for sin on each day, as an atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you will have immolated the victim of expiation, and you shall anoint it for sanctification.Exodus 29:36

Exodus 32:4 And when he had received them, he formed these by the work of a casting furnace, and he made from these a molten calf. And they said: “These are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt.”Exodus 32:4

Exodus 32:8 They have quickly withdrawn from the way which you revealed to them. And they have made for themselves a molten calf, and they have worshiped it. And immolating victims to it, they have said: ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who led you away from the land of Egypt.’ ”Exodus 32:8

Exodus 32:19 And when he had approached to the camp, he saw the calf and the dances. And being very angry, he threw down the tablets from his hand, and he broke them at the base of the mountain.Exodus 32:19

Exodus 32:20 And seizing the calf, which they had made, he burnt it and crushed it, even to dust, which he scattered into water. And he gave from it to the sons of Israel to drink.Exodus 32:20

Exodus 32:24 And I said to them, ‘Which of you has gold?’ And they took it and gave it to me. And I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out.”Exodus 32:24

Exodus 32:35 Therefore, the Lord struck the people for the guilt of the calf, which Aaron had made.Exodus 32:35

Number of the word / term Calf in Exodus: 12

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Leviticus

Leviticus 1:5 And he shall immolate the calf in the sight of the Lord. And the priests, the sons of Aaron, shall offer its blood, pouring it all around the altar, which is before the door of the tabernacle.Leviticus 1:5

Leviticus 4:3 if the priest, who is anointed, will have sinned, causing the people to commit a transgression, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin an immaculate calf.Leviticus 4:3

Leviticus 4:5 Likewise, he shall take from the blood of the calf, carrying it into the tabernacle of the testimony,Leviticus 4:5

Leviticus 4:8 And, on behalf of the sin, he shall take the fat of the calf, both that which covers the vital organs and all that is interior,Leviticus 4:8

Leviticus 4:10 just as it is taken from the calf of the sacrifice of peace offerings. And he shall burn them upon the altar of holocaust.Leviticus 4:10

Leviticus 4:14 and afterwards shall understand their sin: they shall offer a calf on behalf of their sin, and they shall lead it to the door of the tabernacle.Leviticus 4:14

Leviticus 4:15 And the elders of the people shall place their hands upon its head in the sight of the Lord. And when the calf has been immolated in the sight of the Lord,Leviticus 4:15

Leviticus 4:20 doing so with this calf in the same manner as he did before. And while the priest is praying for them, the Lord will forgive them.Leviticus 4:20

Leviticus 4:21 But the calf itself he shall carry away, beyond the camp, and he shall also burn it, just as with the previous calf, because it is for the sin of the multitude.Leviticus 4:21

Leviticus 8:2 Take Aaron, with his sons, their vestments, and the oil of anointing, a calf for sin, two rams, and a basket with unleavened bread,Leviticus 8:2

Leviticus 8:14 He also offered the calf for sin. And when Aaron and his sons had placed their hands upon its head,Leviticus 8:14

Leviticus 8:17 And the calf with the skin, and the flesh, and the dung, he burned beyond the camp, just as the Lord had instructed.Leviticus 8:17

Leviticus 9:2 “Take a calf for sin from the herd, and a ram as a holocaust, both immaculate, and offer them in the sight of the Lord.Leviticus 9:2

Leviticus 9:3 And to the sons of Israel, you shall say: ‘Take a he-goat for sin, and a calf as well as a lamb, both one-year-old and without blemish, as a holocaust.Leviticus 9:3

Leviticus 9:8 And immediately Aaron, approaching toward the altar, immolated the calf for his sin.Leviticus 9:8

Leviticus 16:3 unless he will have done these things beforehand. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram as a holocaust.Leviticus 16:3

Leviticus 16:6 And when he has presented the calf, and has prayed for himself and for his own house,Leviticus 16:6

Leviticus 16:11 After these things have been duly celebrated, he shall offer the calf, and praying for himself and for his own house, he shall immolate it.Leviticus 16:11

Leviticus 16:14 Likewise, he shall take some of the blood of the calf, and sprinkle it with his finger seven times opposite the propitiatory, toward the east.Leviticus 16:14

Leviticus 16:15 And when he has slain the he-goat for the sin of the people, he shall carry its blood within the veil, just as he was instructed to do with the blood of the calf, so that he may sprinkle it away from the area of the oracle,Leviticus 16:15

Leviticus 16:18 And when he has exited to the altar which is before the Lord, let him pray for himself, and taking the blood of the calf, and of the he-goat, let him pour it upon its horns all around.Leviticus 16:18

Leviticus 16:27 But the calf and the he-goat, which were immolated for sin, and whose blood was brought into the Sanctuary to complete the expiation, these shall be carried outside the camp and be burned with fire: as with their skins, so also with their flesh and dung.Leviticus 16:27

Leviticus 23:18 And you shall offer with the bread: seven immaculate one-year-old lambs, and one calf from the herd, and two rams, and these shall be a holocaust, with their libations, as a most sweet odor to the Lord.Leviticus 23:18

Number of the word / term Calf in Leviticus: 23

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Numbers

Numbers 15:24 and if the multitude will have forgotten to do it, then they shall offer a calf from the herd, a holocaust as a most sweet odor to the Lord, and its sacrifice and libations, just as the ceremonies ask, and a he-goat for sin.Numbers 15:24

Numbers 23:2 And when he had acted according to the words of Balaam, they placed a calf and a ram together on each altar.Numbers 23:2

Numbers 23:4 And after he had quickly departed, God met with him. And Balaam, speaking to him, said: “I have set up seven altars, and I have placed a calf and a ram on each.”Numbers 23:4

Numbers 23:14 And when he had led him to a lofty place, on the top of mount Pisgah, Balaam built seven altars, and placing upon each a calf and a ram,Numbers 23:14

Numbers 23:30 Balak did as Balaam had said, and he placed on each altar a calf and a ram.Numbers 23:30

Numbers 28:12 and three tenths of fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, as sacrifice, for each calf, and two tenths of fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, for each ram,Numbers 28:12

Numbers 28:14 Now these shall be the libations of wine, which are to be poured out for each victim: one half portion of a hin for each calf, one third for a ram, and one fourth for a lamb. This shall be the holocaust for all the months, as they succeed one another in the turning of the year.Numbers 28:14

Numbers 28:20 and with each sacrifice, from fine wheat flour which has been sprinkled with oil, three tenths for each calf, and two tenths for each ram,Numbers 28:20

Numbers 28:28 and also, as their sacrifices, fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil, three tenths for each calf, two for each ram,Numbers 28:28

Numbers 29:2 And you shall offer a holocaust, as a most sweet odor to the Lord: one calf from the herd, one ram, and seven immaculate one-year-old lambs;Numbers 29:2

Numbers 29:3 and, as their sacrifices, fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil: three tenths for each calf, two tenths for a ram,Numbers 29:3

Numbers 29:8 And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord, as a most sweet odor: one calf from the herd, one ram, seven immaculate one-year-old lambs;Numbers 29:8

Numbers 29:9 and for their sacrifices, fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil: three tenths for each calf, two tenths for a ram,Numbers 29:9

Numbers 29:14 and as their libations, fine wheat flour sprinkled with oil: three tenths for each calf, which is all together thirteen calves, and two tenths for each ram, that is, all together two rams,Numbers 29:14

Numbers 29:36 offering a holocaust as a most sweet odor to the Lord: one calf, one ram, and seven immaculate one-year-old lambs.Numbers 29:36

Number of the word / term Calf in Numbers: 15

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 9:16 and I had seen that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made a molten calf for yourselves, and had quickly abandoned his way, which he had revealed to you,Deuteronomy 9:16

Deuteronomy 9:21 But as for your sin which you committed, that is, the calf, taking hold of it, I burned it with fire. And breaking it into pieces, and reducing it entirely to dust, I threw it into the torrent that descends from the mountain.Deuteronomy 9:21

Deuteronomy 21:3 And in whichever one they perceive to be closer than the others, the elders shall take a calf from the herd, one which has not pulled with a yoke, nor tilled with a plow.Deuteronomy 21:3

Deuteronomy 21:4 And they shall lead it into a rough and stony valley, one which has never been tilled or sown. And in that place, they shall cut the neck of the calf.Deuteronomy 21:4

Deuteronomy 21:6 And those greater by birth of that city, nearest to the one who was slain, shall go and shall wash their hands over the calf that was killed in the valley.Deuteronomy 21:6

Number of the word / term Calf in Deuteronomy: 5

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Judges

Judges 15:8 And he struck them with a tremendous slaughter, so much so that, out of astonishment, they laid the calf of the leg upon the thigh. And descending, he lived in a cave of the rock at Etam.Judges 15:8

Number of the word / term Calf in Judges: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book 1 Samuel

1 Samuel 1:25 And they immolated a calf, and they presented the boy to Eli.1 Samuel 1:25

1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said: “How shall I go? For Saul will hear of it, and he will put me to death.” And the Lord said: “You shall take, by your hand, a calf from the herd. And you shall say, ‘I have arrived in order to immolate to the Lord.’1 Samuel 16:2

1 Samuel 28:24 Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she hurried and killed it. And taking meal, she kneaded it, and she baked unleavened bread.1 Samuel 28:24

Number of the word / term Calf in 1 Samuel: 3

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book 1 Kings

1 Kings 12:30 And this word became an occasion of sin. For the people went to adore the calf, even to Dan.1 Kings 12:30

Number of the word / term Calf in 1 Kings: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Nehemiah

Nehemiah 9:18 Indeed, even when they had made for themselves a molten calf, and they had said, ‘This is your God, who led you away from Egypt!’ and had committed great blasphemies,Nehemiah 9:18

Number of the word / term Calf in Nehemiah: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Psalm

Psalm 29:6 And it will break them into pieces, like a calf of Lebanon, and in the same way as the beloved son of the single-horned beast.Psalm 29:6

Psalm 69:31 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.Psalm 69:31

Psalm 106:19 And they fashioned a calf at Horeb, and they adored a graven image.Psalm 106:19

Psalm 106:20 And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of a calf that eats hay.Psalm 106:20

Number of the word / term Calf in Psalm: 4

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Proverbs

Proverbs 15:17 It is better to be called to vegetables with charity, than to a fatted calf with hatred.Proverbs 15:17

Number of the word / term Calf in Proverbs: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Isaiah

Isaiah 11:6 The wolf will dwell with the lamb; and the leopard will lie down with the kid; the calf and the lion and the sheep will abide together; and a little boy will drive them.Isaiah 11:6

Isaiah 11:7 The calf and the bear will feed together; their young ones will rest together. And the lion will eat straw like the ox.Isaiah 11:7

Isaiah 15:5 My heart will cry out to Moab; its bars will cry out even to Zoar, like a three-year-old calf. For they will ascend weeping, by way of the ascent of Luhith. And along the way of Horonaim, they will lift up a cry of contrition.Isaiah 15:5

Isaiah 27:10 For the fortified city will be desolate. The shining city will be abandoned and will be left behind like a desert. In that place, the calf will pasture, and in that place, he will lie down, and he will feed from its summits.Isaiah 27:10

Number of the word / term Calf in Isaiah: 4

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Jeremiah

Jeremiah 34:18 And I will give over the men who have betrayed my covenant, and who have not observed the words of the covenant, to which they assented in my sight when they cut the calf into two parts and passed between its parts:Jeremiah 34:18

Jeremiah 34:19 the leaders of Judah, and the leaders of Jerusalem, the eunuchs and the priests, and all the people of the land, who have passed between the parts of the calf.Jeremiah 34:19

Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt is like a stately and finely-formed calf. The one who will goad her will come from the north.Jeremiah 46:20

Jeremiah 48:34 From the outcry of Heshbon, even to Elealeh and Jahzah, they have uttered their voice; from Zoar, even to Horonaim, like a three year old calf. So too, the waters of Nimrim will be very bad.Jeremiah 48:34

Number of the word / term Calf in Jeremiah: 4

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Ezekiel

Ezekiel 1:7 Their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their foot was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they sparkled with the appearance of glowing brass.Ezekiel 1:7

Ezekiel 43:19 And you shall present these to the priests and to the Levites, who are of the offspring of Zadok, those who draw near to me, says the Lord God, so that they may offer to me a calf from the herd on behalf of sin.Ezekiel 43:19

Ezekiel 43:21 And you shall take the calf, which will be offered for sin, and you shall burn it in a separate place in the house, outside of the sanctuary.Ezekiel 43:21

Ezekiel 43:22 And on the second day, you shall offer an immaculate he-goat from among the she-goats on behalf of sin. And they shall expiate the altar, just as they expiated it with the calf.Ezekiel 43:22

Ezekiel 43:23 And when you will have completed expiating it, you shall offer an immaculate calf from the herd and an immaculate ram from the flock.Ezekiel 43:23

Ezekiel 43:25 For seven days, you shall offer daily a he-goat on behalf of sin. Also, they shall offer a calf from the herd, and a ram from the flock, ones that are immaculate.Ezekiel 43:25

Ezekiel 45:18 Thus says the Lord God: In the first month, on the first of the month, you shall take an immaculate calf from the herd, and you shall expiate the sanctuary.Ezekiel 45:18

Ezekiel 45:22 And on that day, the prince shall offer, on behalf of himself and on behalf of all the people of the land, a calf for sin.Ezekiel 45:22

Ezekiel 45:24 And he shall offer the sacrifice of an ephah for each calf, and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for every ephah.Ezekiel 45:24

Ezekiel 46:6 Then, on the day of the new moon, he shall offer one immaculate calf from the herd. Both the six lambs and the rams shall be immaculate.Ezekiel 46:6

Ezekiel 46:7 And he shall offer the sacrifice of one ephah for each calf, and also one ephah for each ram. But for the lambs, it shall be just as his hand will find. And there shall be one hin of oil for each ephah.Ezekiel 46:7

Ezekiel 46:11 And during the feasts and the solemnities, there shall be the sacrifice of one ephah for each calf, and one ephah for each ram. But for the lambs, the sacrifice shall be just as his hand will find. And there shall be one hin of oil for each ephah.Ezekiel 46:11

Number of the word / term Calf in Ezekiel: 12

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Hosea

Hosea 8:5 Your calf, Samaria, has been rejected. My fury has been enraged against them. How long will they be incapable of being cleansed?Hosea 8:5

Hosea 8:6 For it is itself also from Israel: a workman made it, and it is not God. For the calf of Samaria will be used for the webs of spiders.Hosea 8:6

Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria have worshipped the calf of Bethaven. For the keepers of its temple, who had exulted over it in its glory, and its people, have mourned over it because it migrated from there.Hosea 10:5

Number of the word / term Calf in Hosea: 3

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Luke

Luke 15:23 And bring the fatted calf here, and kill it. And let us eat and hold a feast.Luke 15:23

Luke 15:27 And he said to him: ‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has received him safely.’Luke 15:27

Luke 15:30 Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.’Luke 15:30

Number of the word / term Calf in Luke: 3

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Acts

Acts 7:41 And so they fashioned a calf in those days, and they offered sacrifices to an idol, and they rejoiced in the works of their own hands.Acts 7:41

Number of the word / term Calf in Acts: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Hebrews

Hebrews 9:13 For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a calf, when these are sprinkled, sanctify those who have been defiled, in order to cleanse the flesh,Hebrews 9:13

Number of the word / term Calf in Hebrews: 1

Bible passages with ‘Calf’ in the book Revelation

Revelation 4:7 And the first living creature resembled a lion, and the second living creature resembled a calf, and the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature resembled a flying eagle.Revelation 4:7

Number of the word / term ‘Calf’ in Revelation: 1

These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.

Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 97

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