The Life of the Beast

A righteous man knows the value of the life of his animal, But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel. — Prov 12:10

Then Yahweh God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and so the man became a living being. — Gen 2:7

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. — 1 Cor 15:45

Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the expanse of the heavens.” — Gen 1:20

And God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. — Gen 1:21

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. — Gen 1:24

And out of the ground Yahweh God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and He brought each to the man to see what he would call it; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. — Gen 2:19

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — Gen 1:26

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. — Gen 1:27

If a man strikes down the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death. — Lev 24:17

And the one who strikes down the life of an animal shall make restitution for it, life for life. — Lev 24:18

‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.’ — Lev 17:11

For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’ — Lev 17:14

And the second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died. — Rev 16:3

In whose hand is the life of every living thing, And the breath of all the flesh of man? — Job 12:10

For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same fate for each of them. As one dies so dies the other, and they all have the same breath. So there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. — Eccl 3:19

All go to the same place. All came from the dust, and all return to the dust. — Eccl 3:20

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth? — Eccl 3:21

You hide Your face, they are dismayed; You take away their spirit, they breathe their last And return to their dust. — Ps 104:29

You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground. — Ps 104:30

And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. — Gen 6:19

8 Then God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. — Gen 8:1

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are like a great deep. O Yahweh, You save man and beast. — Ps 36:6

“So should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many animals?” — Jonah 4:11

Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of beast. — Jer 31:27

I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will multiply and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am Yahweh. — Ezek 36:11

As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you; — Gen 9:9

and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. — Gen 9:10

Then God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; — Gen 9:12

and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. — Gen 9:15

“So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” — Gen 9:16

And in that day I will cut a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, The birds of the sky, And the creeping things of the ground. And I will break the bow, the sword, and war from the land, And I will make them lie down in security. — Hos 2:18

For your covenant will be with the stones of the field, And the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. — Job 5:23

And he cried out and said, — Jonah 3:7

In Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let man, animal, herd, or flock taste a thing. Do not let them eat, and do not let them drink water. — Jonah 3:7

But both man and animal must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God with their strength that each may turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands. — Jonah 3:8

Even the beasts of the field pant for You; For the water brooks are dried up, And fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness. — Joel 1:20

How long is the land to mourn And the plants of every field to dry up? Because of the evil of those who inhabit it, Animals and birds have been swept away, Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.” — Jer 12:4

Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who inhabits it languishes Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear. — Hos 4:3

So Yahweh did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died; but of the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died. — Exod 9:6

And Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” — Num 22:28

Then he went and on the way a lion met him and put him to death, and his body was thrown on the road, with the donkey standing beside it; the lion also was standing beside the body. — 1 Kgs 13:24

Then he looked behind him and saw them. And he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number. — 2 Kgs 2:24

Now as for you, son of man, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Say to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, “Gather and come, assemble from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood. — Ezek 39:17

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great supper of God, — Rev 19:17

For every beast of the forest is Mine, The cattle on a thousand hills. — Ps 50:10

I know every bird of the mountains, And everything that moves in the field is Mine. — Ps 50:11

Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. — Matt 10:29

Who prepares for the raven its provision When its young cry for help to God And wander about without food? — Job 38:41

39 “Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth? Do you keep watch over the calving of the deer? — Job 39:1

They all wait for You To give them their food in due season. — Ps 104:27

You give to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good. — Ps 104:28

The eyes of all wait on You, And You give them their food in due time. — Ps 145:15

You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing. — Ps 145:16

Who gives to the animal its food, And to the young ravens which call out. — Ps 147:9

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? — Matt 6:26

but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates. — Exod 20:10

If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him. — Exod 23:4

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him. — Exod 23:5

Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant, as well as your sojourner, may refresh themselves. — Exod 23:12

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way and ignore them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up. — Deut 22:4

If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; — Deut 22:6

you shall certainly let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, in order that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days. — Deut 22:7

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. — Deut 22:10

You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing. — Deut 25:4

When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a sacrifice of an offering by fire to Yahweh. — Lev 22:27

But, whether it is an ox or a sheep, you shall not slaughter both it and its young in one day. — Lev 22:28

And He said to them, “Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?” — Luke 14:5

And He said to them, “What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? — Matt 12:11

“How much more valuable then is a man than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” — Matt 12:12

But now ask the beasts, and let them instruct you; And the birds of the sky, and let them tell you. — Job 12:7

Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you; And let the fish of the sea recount it to you. — Job 12:8

Who among all these does not know That the hand of Yahweh has done this, — Job 12:9

Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, — Prov 6:6

Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, — Prov 6:7

Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest. — Prov 6:8

Four things are small on the earth, But they are exceedingly wise: — Prov 30:24

The ants are not a strong people, But they prepare their food in the summer; — Prov 30:25

The shephanim are not a mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the cliff; — Prov 30:26

“An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master’s manger, But Israel does not know; My people do not perceive.” — Isa 1:3

Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the crane Keep the time of their migration; But My people do not know The legal judgment of Yahweh. — Jer 8:7

Know well the condition of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds; — Prov 27:23

For the anxious longing of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. — Rom 8:19

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope — Rom 8:20

that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. — Rom 8:21

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. — Rom 8:22

And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a young boy will lead them. — Isa 11:6

They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain, For the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh As the waters cover the sea. — Isa 11:9

“The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain,” says Yahweh. — Isa 65:25

The beasts of the field will glorify Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I have given waters in the wilderness And rivers in the wasteland, To give drink to My chosen people. — Isa 43:20

Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and winged bird; — Ps 148:10

Let everything that has breath praise Yah. Praise Yah! — Ps 150:6

And through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross—through Him—whether things on earth or things in heaven. — Col 1:20

And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, “To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.” — Rev 5:13

So do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. — Matt 10:31

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. — 1 Cor 15:39

For in Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him. — Col 1:16

And He is before all things, And in Him all things hold together. — Col 1:17

“Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created.” — Rev 4:11