Animals are spoken of frequently in the Bible, literally (as in the creation account and the story of Noah's ark) and symbolically (as in the Lion of the Tribe of Judah). In the Bible, the reader will find lions, leopards, and bears (although no tigers), along with nearly 100 other animals, insects, and non-human creatures mentioned throughout the Old and New Testaments. And while dogs figure prominently in several passages, there is not a single mention of a domestic cat in the entire canon of Scripture.

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