23 Bible Verses about Animals Having A Soul

Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness and it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.

What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity.

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

Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

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.

In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.

Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.

God said: Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind. It was so.

God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves in the waters after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Thus it is written: The first man Adam was made a living being. The last Adam became a life giving spirit!

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was. The spirit (life) will return to God who gave it.

This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.'

Mortals, with what they treasure, still do not have understanding. They are like animals that die.

Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.

Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate.

Let everything that breathes praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah!

In whatever city you live, you may slaughter and eat as much meat as you want from what Jehovah your God has blessed you with. Clean and unclean people may eat it as if they were eating a gazelle or a deer.

You must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it.

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But no suitable helper was found for Adam.

That is why you must make a difference between animals and birds that I have said are clean and unclean. This will keep you from becoming disgusting to me.