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GENESIS 1: 20-25
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that
moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and
every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God
blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the
morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the
living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of
the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
GENESIS 9: 14-17
When I gather the clouds over the earth and the bow appears in the clouds,
I shall recall the covenant between myself and you and every living creature,
in a word all living things, and never again will the waters become a
flood to destroy all living things. When the bow is in the clouds I shall
see it and call to mind the eternal covenant between God and every living
creature on earth, that is, all living things. `That' God told Noah, `is
the sign of the covenant I have established between myself and all living
things on earth.'
ISAIAH 11:6-9
And the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed,
their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They
shall not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall
be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
JOB 12:7-10
You have only to ask the cattle, for them to instruct you, and the birds
of the sky, for them to inform you. The creeping things of earth will
give you lessons, and the fish of the sea provide you an explanation:
there is not one such creature but will know that the hand of God has
arranged things like this! In his hand is the soul of every living thing
and the breath of every human being!
PSALM 50:9-11
I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens, for
every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are
mine.
PSALMS 50:10-11
For all forest creatures are mine already, the animals on the mountains
in their thousands. I know every bird in the air, whatever moves in the
fields is mine.
PSALM 136:25
...And who gives food to every creature. His love endures forever.
PROVERBS 12:10
A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal
ECCLESIASTES 3:19-21
Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both:
As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath, man has no advantage
over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place;
all come from dust and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of
man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?
LUKE 12:6
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is
forgotten before god.
REVELATION 19: 11-14
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True.
With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.
He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name
is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
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