Bible Verses About Livestock Management

For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.

And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.

Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.

And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

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

But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

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

Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.

And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

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

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.

Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.

And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.