100 Bible Verses About Animals
Bible verses about Animals
Exploring what the Bible says about animals reveals a profound understanding of God's creation and our role within it. Scripture highlights the inherent value of animals, recognizing them as beings deserving of care and respect, intricately woven into the tapestry of life alongside humanity. By studying these verses, we gain insight into God's character – His compassion, provision, and commitment to all living things. Understanding the biblical perspective on animals challenges us to live more responsibly and compassionately, fostering a deeper connection with the natural world and reflecting God's love for His entire creation. It encourages us to be good stewards and recognize the divine spark present in every living creature.
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Proverbs 30:17 (KJV)
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth–jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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 a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.
But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish:
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Send therefore now, and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
And they laded their asses with the corn, and departed thence.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram,
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master’s son.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.
And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Their camels, four hundred thirty and five: six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses.
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;
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.
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.
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
And every raven after his kind,
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
Through the diverse collection of Bible verses explored, we see a consistent thread of God's care, provision, and concern for all creatures. From the creation narrative where animals are blessed and given purpose, to the covenants that include them, and the wisdom literature that observes their inherent value, Scripture reveals a divine perspective that transcends mere utilitarianism. These verses challenge us to reconsider our relationship with animals, prompting reflection on our stewardship responsibilities. Do we treat them with compassion, acknowledging their intrinsic worth as part of God's creation? Perhaps considering these passages, we can cultivate a deeper reverence for the animal kingdom, advocating for their welfare and recognizing their role in the intricate tapestry of life, ultimately reflecting God's own benevolent heart towards all living things.