Bible Verses about โanimals in the houseโ
The Bible contains 16 verses about animals in the house across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โThis 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,โ
โGod 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."โ
โLet everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!โ
โA righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.โ
โFor that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.โ
โAll go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.โ
โYahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.โ
โWho knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"โ
โI said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.โ
โin whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?โ
โ"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.โ
โOr speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.โ
โWho doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,โ
โbut 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.โ
โthen it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."โ
โThe woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it.โ
