Bible Verses About Animals

God said, “Let the earth bring forth each kind of living creature — each kind of livestock, crawling animal and wild beast”; and that is how it was.

God made each kind of wild beast, each kind of livestock and every kind of animal that crawls along the ground; and God saw that it was good.

“From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female.

Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive.

Of every clean animal you are to take seven couples, and of the animals that are not clean, one couple;

also of the birds in the air take seven couples — in order to preserve their species throughout the earth.

For in seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; I will wipe out every living thing that I have made from the face of the earth.”

Noach did all that Adonai ordered him to do.

Noach was 600 years old when the water flooded the earth.

Noach went into the ark with his sons, his wife and his sons’ wives, because of the floodwaters.

Of clean animals, of animals that are not clean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,

The fear and dread of you will be upon every wild animal, every bird in the air, every creature populating the ground, and all the fish in the sea; they have been handed over to you.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you; just as I gave you green plants before, so now I give you everything —

“As for me — I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you,

and with every living creature that is with you — the birds, the livestock and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth.

That day Lavan removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted and all the female goats that were speckled or spotted, every one with white on it, and all the brown sheep; turned them over to his sons;

and put three days' distance between himself and Ya'akov. Ya'akov fed the rest of Lavan's flocks.

Ya'akov took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white streaks on them by peeling off the bark.

Then he set the rods he had peeled upright in the watering troughs, so that the animals would see them when they came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,

the animals mated in sight of the rods and gave birth to streaked, speckled and spotted young.

Ya'akov divided the lambs and had the animals mate with the streaked and the brown in the flock of Lavan. He also kept his own livestock separate and did not have them mix with Lavan's flock.

Whenever the hardier animals came into heat, Ya'akov would set up the rods in the watering troughs; so that the animals would see them and conceive in front of them;

but he didn't set up the rods in front of the weaker animals. Thus the more feeble were Lavan's and the stronger Ya'akov's.

In this way the man became very rich and had large flocks, along with male and female slaves, camels and donkeys.

If he said, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to streaked young.