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RAVEN

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A black carnivorous bird

Proverbs 30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Song of Solomon 5:11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

Forbidden as food

Leviticus 11:15 Every raven after his kind;

Deuteronomy 14:14 And every raven after his kind,

Preserved by Noah in the ark

Genesis 8:7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Fed Elijah

1 Kings 17:4-6 And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

Cared for by divine providence

Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

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