Bible Verses about “animal souls”

“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."”

“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.”

“God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so.”

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

“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.”

“Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"”

“and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”