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Bible Verses about “taking care of animals

Found 24 verses (ordered by relevance) about “taking care of animals” in the KJV version of the Bible

Genesis 1:28
755 votes

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.

Genesis 1:26
661 votes

¶ 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.

Matthew 6:26
585 votes

‹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?›

Proverbs 12:10
334 votes

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

Exodus 20:10
173 votes

But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates:

Genesis 2:15
168 votes

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Proverbs 27:23
107 votes

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

Job 12:10
101 votes

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

James 3:7
91 votes

For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

Matthew 10:29
72 votes

‹Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.›

Luke 12:6
72 votes

‹Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?›

Job 12:7
57 votes

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

Job 12:8
57 votes

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

Job 12:9
57 votes

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

Deuteronomy 22:6
36 votes

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:

Deuteronomy 22:7
32 votes

[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.

Deuteronomy 25:4
32 votes

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

Exodus 23:11
21 votes

But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

Psalms 147:9
18 votes

He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.

Exodus 23:5
13 votes

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

Psalms 50:11
10 votes

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine.

Exodus 23:4
9 votes

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Psalms 50:10
9 votes

For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills.

Jonah 4:11
8 votes

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and [also] much cattle?