Bible verses about "animals" | Leeser

⁶ And the wolf shall dwell with the sheep, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling shall be together, and a little boy shall lead them.

²⁵ The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall like the bullock eat straw: and the serpent—dust shall be his food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

²¹ And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heaven, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

¹¹ Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of the heavens?

⁷ Yet, do only ask of the beasts, and they will instruct thee; and the fowls of the heavens, and they will tell it thee; ⁸ Or speak to the earth, and she will instruct thee; and the fishes of the sea will inform thee ⁹ Who knoweth not through all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? ¹⁰ He in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the spirit of all the bodies of men?

⁹ The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.

¹⁸ I said in my heart concerning the speaking of the sons of men, that God might make it clear to them, and that they might see that they by themselves are but beasts. ¹⁹ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even the same thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one kind of spirit: so that the preeminence of man above the beast is nought; for all is vanity. ²⁰ Every thing goeth unto one place: every thing came from the dust, and every thing returneth to the dust. ²¹ Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that ascendeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that descendeth downward to the earth?

² And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the heaven; whatever is that moveth upon the earth, and all the fishes of the sea, are delivered into your hand. ³ Every moving thing that liveth shall be yours for food; even as the green herbs have I given you all things.

²⁶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and they shall have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ²⁷ And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heaven, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

¹⁰ A righteous man careth for the life of his beast; but the mercies of the wicked are cruelty.