In the natural world, humans have dominion over creation, as established in Genesis 1:26, where God grants humanity authority over all living things. The treatment of insects is addressed in Leviticus 11:20-23, which distinguishes between clean and unclean creatures. While Isaiah 7:18 and Psalms 118:12 mention insects in the context of divine judgment and earthly abundance, the biblical perspective emphasizes stewardship and responsibility. According to Leviticus 11:20, certain insects are considered unclean, highlighting the importance of discernment in human interactions with the created world.
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All flying insects that walk on all fours are detestable to you. However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket, or grasshopper. All other flying insects that have four legs are detestable to you.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.