Kid

A young goat, which can be either male or female.

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Young goat. See Animals (Goat).

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Key References

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.

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.

Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

All Scripture References (20)

Genesis (5)
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.

Genesis 27:16

She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Genesis 38:17

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

Genesis 38:20

Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Genesis 38:23

“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”

Exodus (2)
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.

Exodus 34:26

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.”

Deuteronomy (1)
Deuteronomy 14:21

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Judges (5)
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.

Judges 13:15

“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”

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.

Judges 14:6

and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Judges 15:1

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

1 Samuel (2)
1 Samuel 10:3

Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

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.

Song of Solomon (1)
Song of Solomon 1:8

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

Isaiah (1)
Isaiah 11:6

The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the goat; the calf and young lion and fatling will be together, and a little child will lead them.

Matthew (2)
Matthew 25:32

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Matthew 25:33

He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.

Luke (1)
Luke 15:29

But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.