Taking Care Of Animals

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

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.”

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?

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

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?”

You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

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;

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. — read the full passage →

“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 →

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

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.”

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 →

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

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 →

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. — read the full passage →

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?”

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.

God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky.” — read the full passage →

Whether it is a cow or ewe, you shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

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. — read the full passage →

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” — read the full passage →

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter. — read the full passage →

“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.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me.

“As for me, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your offspring after you, — read the full passage →

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. — read the full passage →

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. — read the full passage →

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →

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!

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 →

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.

Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

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,

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds: — read the full passage →

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: — 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 →

There will be plenty of goats’ milk for your food, for your family’s food, and for the nourishment of your servant girls.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. — read the full passage →

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: — read the full passage →

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

“When a bull, or a sheep, or a goat, is born, then it shall remain seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for the offering of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you. — 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.”

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 →

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.

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

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 →

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

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 →

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.

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,

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. — read the full passage →

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;