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Want to know what the Bible says about Animal Cruelty? Here are 85 Bible verses about Animal Cruelty from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Exodus 20:10 NIV
but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
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Jonah 4:11 NIV
And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”
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Deuteronomy 22:4 NIV
If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.
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Exodus 23:12 NIV
“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
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Isaiah 11:6 NIV
The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a little child will lead them.
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Genesis 1:26 NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Job 12:7-10 NIV
7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
    or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
    or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know
    that the hand of the Lord has done this?
10 In his hand is the life of every creature
    and the breath of all mankind.
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Isaiah 32:20 NIV
how blessed you will be,
    sowing your seed by every stream,
    and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.
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Genesis 3:21 NIV
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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Genesis 9:3 NIV
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
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Genesis 2:19 NIV
Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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Hosea 2:18 NIV
In that day I will make a covenant for them
    with the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
    and the creatures that move along the ground.
Bow and sword and battle
    I will abolish from the land,
    so that all may lie down in safety.
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Job 38:41 NIV
Who provides food for the raven
    when its young cry out to God
    and wander about for lack of food?
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Isaiah 11:6-9 NIV
6 The wolf will live with the lamb,
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
    and a little child will lead them.
7 The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
8 The infant will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.
9 They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,
for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.
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Leviticus 25:7 NIV
as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.
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1 Timothy 5:18 NIV
For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”
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Psalm 147:9 NIV
He provides food for the cattle
    and for the young ravens when they call.
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Genesis 1:21 NIV
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
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Exodus 23:4 NIV
“If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.
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