Thematic Bible: Humaneness to (toward animals and other creatures)


Thematic Bible



“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.

“If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

And to them, He said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”


Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.