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Animals
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A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand. — read the full passage →
I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals. — read the full passage →
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them. — read the full passage →
God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: — read the full passage →
“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.
For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
All flesh will see God’s salvation.’”
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →
You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name.
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. — read the full passage →
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war. — read the full passage →
Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths! — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”
The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.
Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”
“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ship, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. — read the full passage →
If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him, you shall surely help him with it.
Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. — read the full passage →
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”
The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.
Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
He answered them, “Which of you, if your sonor an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”
For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that God cares,
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.”
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of the flock,
I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, — read the full passage →
The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!
God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. — read the full passage →
Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, — read the full passage →
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
God called the dry land “earth”, and the gathering together of the waters he called “seas”. God saw that it was good.
God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, — read the full passage →
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. — read the full passage →
When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.
Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” — read the full passage →
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. — read the full passage →
Who doesn’t know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this, — read the full passage →
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. — read the full passage →
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