23 Bible Verses about Owning Livestock

which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.

Lot also, which went with him, had sheep, cattle and tents:

and have gotten oxen, asses and sheep, menservants and womenservants, and have sent to show it my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.'"

And the LORD made Job richer than he was before: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand asses.

I bought servants and maidens, and had a great household. As for cattle and sheep, I had more substance of them than all they that were before me in Jerusalem.

The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had an exceeding great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was an apt place for cattle, they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazar the priest and unto the lords of the congregation, saying, "The land of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,read more.
which country the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle: and we thy servants have cattle.

And eastward he inhabited until the wilderness, even upon the river Euphrates, for their cattle was much in the land of Gilead.

He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly, and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Then took Abimelech sheep and oxen, menservants and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and delivered him Sara his wife again.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together.

thirty milch camels with their colts: forty cows and ten bulls: twenty she asses and ten foals

and the LORD hath blessed my master out of measure that he is become great and hath given him sheep, oxen, silver and gold, menservants, maidservants, camels and asses.

that he had possession of sheep, of oxen, and a mighty household; so that the Philistines had envy at him,

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,

Our cattle therefore shall go with us, and there shall not one hoof be left behind, for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God. Moreover, we cannot know wherewith we shall serve the LORD, until we come thither."

Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;

and took their sheep, oxen, asses and whatsoever was in the city and also in the fields.

And they took of their cattle fifty thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and of the people a hundred thousand:

And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to prove them, I pray thee have me excused.'

And they brought their cattle unto Joseph. And he gave them bread for horses and sheep, and oxen and asses: so he fed them with bread for all their cattle that year.

And Mesha king of Moab - which was rich of sheep, and was wont to render unto the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and as many rams, with the wool -