5 Bible Verses about Animals In Captivity

Proverbs 27:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

Proverbs 12:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Genesis 7:2-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 6:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.”

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