8 Bible Verses about Animal Rights

If your enemy's donkey falls under its load, help him get the donkey to its feet again. Do not just walk away.

This time, when the donkey saw the angel, it lay down. Balaam lost his temper and began to beat the donkey with his stick.

David captured seventeen hundred of his cavalry and twenty thousand of his foot soldiers. He kept enough horses for a hundred chariots and crippled (hamstrung) all the rest.

David took one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him. David also disabled all but one hundred of their horses so that they could not pull chariots.

A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is terrible.

If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.

Then God said: I give you every plant that bears seed on the face of the entire earth. I also give you every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. Also every beast of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground; everything that has the breath of life in it, I give every green plant for food. It was so.

Do not muzzle the bull while he is threshing.