23 Bible Verses about Possessing Sheep
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Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
The half, which was the portion of those who went out to war, was in number three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep:
(now the congregation's half was three hundred thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep,
Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
He said, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.
but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.
They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,