11 Bible Verses about Livestock

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Job 1:3

And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.

Job 21:10

His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren.

Numbers 32:4

The land which Jehovah smote before the assembly of Israel, it is a land of cattle, and to thy servants are cattle.

Genesis 13:7

And there shall be a strife between the shepherds of Abram's cattle, and between the shepherds of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land.

Exodus 12:29

And it will be in the middle of the night, and Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, to the first-born of the captive which is in the house of the pit; and every first-born of the cattle.

Exodus 34:19

All opening the womb is to me: all thy cattle, the male, the firstling of the ox or sheep.

Leviticus 5:2

Or when a soul shall touch upon any unclean thing, if upon a carcase of an unclean beast, or upon the carcase of unclean cattle, or upon the carcase of an unclean creeping thing, and it was hidden from him: and he is unclean and guilty.

Numbers 32:1

And much cattle was to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad exceedingly strong: and they will see the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place a place of cattle.

Numbers 3:45

Take the Levites instead of all the first-born of the sons of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be to me: I Jehovah.

1 Chronicles 5:21

And they will take captive their cattle; their camels fifty thousand, and sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and asses two thousand, and the soul of man, a hundred thousand.

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Exodus 21:28-36

And if an ox shall push (with the horns) a man or a woman, and he died; stoning, the ox shall be stoned, and he shall not eat his flesh; and the lord of the ox being innocent And if this ox pushed (with the horns) from yesterday the third day, and being testified to its lord, and he will not watch him and he killed the man or the woman; the ox shall be stoned, and also his lord shall be put to death. If an expiation shall be put upon him, the price of redemption of his soul according to all which shall be put upon him. read more.
If he shall push (with his horns) a son, or shall push a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. If the ox shall push a servant, or a maid, he shall give thirty shekels of silver to his lord, and the ox shall be stoned. And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and shall not cover it, and an ox fall there, or an ass: The lord of the pit shall recompense; he shall turn back silver to his lord and the dead shall be to him. And if a man's ox shall strike the ox of his friend and he died, and they shall sell the living ox and divide the silver, and also the dead ox they shall divide. Or if this ox was known to push from yesterday, the third day, and his lord guarded him not; recompensing, he shall recompense, ox for ox, and the dead shall be to him.

Leviticus 19:19

My laws shall ye watch: thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with two diverse kinds: thy field thou shalt not sow with two diverse kinds; and a garment of two diverse kinds (of linen and woolen) shall not come upon thee.

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Genesis 12:16

And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels.

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