Quotes About Animals

But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ëDo as follows: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan.

But among all the Israelites, not even a dog will snarl at man or beast.í Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.

The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

The following creatures that move along the ground are unclean for you: the mole, the mouse, any kind of great lizard,

If an animal that you may eat dies, anyone who touches the carcass will be unclean until evening.

This is the law regarding animals, birds, all living creatures that move in the water, and all creatures that crawl along the ground.

You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.í”

You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

From the Israelitesí half, take one out of every fifty, whether persons, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”