Bible Verses about “mans role regarding animals”

“So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

“¶ And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

“‹Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?›”

“¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.”

“¶ A righteous [man] regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.”

“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”

“¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds.”

“In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.”

“And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.”

“¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”

“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:”

“Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.”

“Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?”

“But flesh with the life thereof, [which is] the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”

“Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.”

“But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:”

“If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;”

“If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:”

“Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.”

“[But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days.”

“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].”

“Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again.”

“If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.”

“Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together.”

“But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:”

“Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.”

“And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth [upon] the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”

“But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:”

“For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.”

“Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.”

“If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;”

“Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.”

“¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,”

“And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:”

“Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:”

“And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;”

“And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.”

“And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;”

“And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.”

“A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.”

“Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].”

“¶ Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.”

“And if thy brother [be] not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.”

“In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.”

“When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.”