Ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. Leviticus 16:31
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And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25In the Bible's first creation story, God created the animals on the sixth day of creation, "and God saw that it was good." Yet in the commandments, God declares many (perhaps most) of his "good" creations to be "unclean animals" and "abominations." His list of hated creations includes camels, tortoises, lizards, eagles, owls, swans, pelicans, and bats. But he seems to especially dislike marine and aquatic invertebrates, beasts that go upon all four paws, four-legged creeping fowls, and creeping things that either fly or creep upon the earth.
The agriculture commandments require you to give all your firstborn animals to God, along with your first fruits and liquors. Every seventh year you may not plant any crops. You may not crossbreed your animals or plant crops with mixed seed. And don't plow with an ox and an ass together.
For their first three years, fruit trees are uncircumcised and their fruit may not be eaten. When they are four years old, they are holy and must be offered to God. Fruit may only be eaten when the tree is five years old.
There are only two commandments on the environment: subdue the earth and have dominion over every living thing.
(Numbered P and N links are to the positive and negative commandments on Maimonides's list.)
The camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud he is unclean to you.Leviticus 11:4-8Of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof as the camel, and the hare, and the coney ... they are unclean unto you. And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you. Deuteronomy 14:7-8
And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you. Leviticus 11:27
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. Leviticus 11:29-30
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean. Leviticus 20:25a
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. Leviticus 20:25b
All that are in the waters ... [and] hath not fins and scales ... it is unclean unto you. Deuteronomy 14:9-10
Every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you. Deuteronomy 14:19
All that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you. ... Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. Leviticus 11:10-12
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls ... they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind Every raven after his kind And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat. Leviticus 11:13-19
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you. Leviticus 11:20
Every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth ... the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you. Leviticus 11:21-23
Every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination. Leviticus 11:41
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth ... are an abomination. Leviticus 11:42
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine. Exodus 13:2Thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast the males shall be the LORD's. Exodus 13:12
All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 15:19
Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors. Exodus 22:29The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Exodus 34:26
To bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD. Nehemiah 10:35
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God. Nehemiah 10:37
Honour the LORD ... with the firstfruits of all thine increase. Proverbs 3:9
Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. Exodus 22:30
Six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. Exodus 23:10-11When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee. And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. Leviticus 25:2-7
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God.Exodus 23:19
As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour. Leviticus 2:12
Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind. Leviticus 19:19a
Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed. Leviticus 19:19b
And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. Leviticus 19:23
In the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. Leviticus 19:24
In the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof. Leviticus 19:25
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23:14
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. Leviticus 25:20-22
These rules are a bit complicated, so I'll just let God explain the details to you.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy. He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy. And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest: And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation. Leviticus 27:9-13Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD's. And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. Leviticus 27:26-27
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD. Leviticus 27:28
Thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock. Deuteronomy 15:19a
Thou shalt not ... shear the firstling of thy sheep. Deuteronomy 15:19b
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. Deuteronomy 22:9
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Deuteronomy 22:10
The firstborn ... of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God. Nehemiah 10:36
Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26Have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28
The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered. Genesis 9:2
Replenish the earth. Genesis 1:28a
Subdue it [the earth]. Genesis 1:28b
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