Genesis 1:28
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28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, (A)“Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
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Leviticus 19:9
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Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
9 (A)“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.
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Leviticus 25:4
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4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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Deuteronomy 22:6-7
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6 “If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, (A)you shall not take the mother with the young. 7 You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, (B)that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.
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Psalm 36:6
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6 (A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
(B)your judgments are like the great deep;
man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.
Psalm 50:10-11
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10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 (A)I know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
Psalm 104:14-30
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14 You cause (A)the grass to grow for the livestock
and (B)plants for man to cultivate,
that he may bring forth (C)food from the earth
15 and (D)wine to gladden the heart of man,
(E)oil to make his face shine
and bread to (F)strengthen man's heart.
16 The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly,
(G)the cedars of Lebanon (H)that he planted.
17 In them the birds build their nests;
the stork has her home in the fir trees.
18 The high mountains are for (I)the wild goats;
the rocks are a refuge for (J)the rock badgers.
19 He made the moon to mark the (K)seasons;[a]
the sun knows its time for setting.
20 (L)You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 (M)The young lions roar for their prey,
seeking their food from God.
22 When the sun rises, they steal away
and lie down in their (N)dens.
23 (O)Man goes out to his work
and to his labor until the evening.
24 O Lord, how manifold are your works!
In (P)wisdom have you made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
25 Here is the sea, great and wide,
(Q)which teems with creatures innumerable,
living things both small and great.
26 There go the ships,
and (R)Leviathan, which you formed to (S)play in it.[b]
27 These (T)all look to you,
to (U)give them their food in due season.
28 When you give it to them, they gather it up;
when you (V)open your hand, they are filled with good things.
29 When you (W)hide your face, they are (X)dismayed;
when you (Y)take away their breath, they die
and (Z)return to their dust.
30 When you (AA)send forth your Spirit,[c] they are created,
and you (AB)renew the face of the ground.
Footnotes
- Psalm 104:19 Or the appointed times (compare Genesis 1:14)
- Psalm 104:26 Or you formed to play with
- Psalm 104:30 Or breath
Proverbs 12:10
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10 (A)Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast,
but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Jonah 4:11
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11 And should not I pity (A)Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much (B)cattle?”
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