taking care of animals

¹⁰The just one knows the lives of his beasts. But the inner most parts of the impious are cruel.

²³Be diligent to know the countenance of your cattle, and consider your own flocks,

²⁶And he said: “Let us make Man to our image and likeness. And let him rule over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and the wild beasts, and the entire earth, and every animal that moves on the earth.”

²⁶Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?

¹¹And shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men, who do not know the difference between their right and their left, and many beasts?”

⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight of God.

⁴You shall not muzzle an ox as it is treading out your crops in the field.

¹⁰For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen. ¹¹I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

¹⁵Thus, the Lord God brought the man, and put him into the Paradise of enjoyment, so that it would be attended and preserved by him.

¹⁰But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates.

⁴If you come across an ox or a donkey of your enemy, which has gone astray, lead it back to him. ⁵If you see the donkey of one who hates you, fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by without lifting it up with him.

⁷In truth, ask the mules, and they will teach you, and the birds of the sky, and they will reveal to you. ⁸Speak with the earth, and it will respond to you, and the fish of the sea will explain. ⁹Who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord has made all these things? ¹⁰In his hand is the soul of all the living and the spirit of all the flesh of mankind.

²⁹Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.

²⁸And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

⁶If, as you are walking along the way, you find a bird’s nest, in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is nurturing the young or the eggs, you shall not take her with her young. ⁷Instead, you shall permit her to go, retaining the young that you have caught, so that it may be well with you, and you may live for a long time.

¹¹But in the seventh year, you shall release it and cause it to rest, so that the poor of your people may eat. And whatever remains, let the beasts of the field eat it. So shall you do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

⁷For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

⁹He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him.

¹And God blessed Noah and his sons. And he said to them: “Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth. ²And let the fear and trembling of you be upon all the animals of the earth, and upon all the birds of the air, along with all that moves across the earth. All the fish of the sea have been delivered into your hand. ³And everything that moves and lives will be food for you. Just as with the edible plants, I have delivered them all to you,