“And hee said vnto them, What man shal there be among you, that shall haue one sheepe: and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will hee not lay hold on it, and lift it out?”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Mt 12:11 What man . . . shall have one sheep? etc. Such an act of mercy to a beast was allowed and usual then.