God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky."

Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field, The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they do not sow, they do not reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds.

For all kinds of animals, and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind.

The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the LORD's law.

"'If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering of turtledoves, or of young pigeons.

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and crawling creatures.

Consider the ravens: they do not sow, they do not reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds.

See the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much more value than they?

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.