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22 Bible Verses About Animals

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  • Genesis 1:25 calls the animals good before mankind is made, and Genesis 1:26 gives mankind rule over them.
  • God’s covenant after the flood is made with “every living creature” as well as with Noah and his descendants (Genesis 9:9-10), and its sign is the rainbow.
  • The law of Moses gives the ox and donkey a weekly rest (Exodus 23:12), forbids muzzling the ox that treads grain (Deuteronomy 25:4), and requires help for an enemy’s fallen donkey (Exodus 23:5).
  • Jesus points to the birds God feeds and the sparrows he does not forget (Matthew 6:26; Luke 12:6), and the book of Jonah ends with God’s concern for Nineveh’s people “and also many animals.”
  • Isaiah 11:6 and Hosea 2:18 describe a coming peace among animals, while Ecclesiastes 3:21 leaves open what happens to an animal’s spirit at death.

The Bible says God made the animals, called them good and gave people rule over them. He feeds them, remembers them, and after the flood made his covenant with them as well as with Noah (Genesis 9:9-10). The passages that carry the subject are the creation accounts (Genesis 1:25-26; 2:19), Psalm 104:27-28, Jesus’ sayings about birds and sparrows (Matthew 6:26; Luke 12:6), the laws on working animals (Exodus 23:12; Deuteronomy 25:4), and the prophets’ promises of peace between people and…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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