Bible Verses about “taking care of animals”

“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."”

“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?”

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

“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;”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“"But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.”

“Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.”

“Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this,”

“If a bird's nest chance to be before you in 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:”

“you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.”

“You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.”

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

“For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.”

“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?"”