Genesis 46:32

Jacob And His Offspring Go To Egypt

³¹ And Joseph said unto his brethren and unto his father's house, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and say unto him, My brethren and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me; ³² and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock; and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’ ³³ And it shall come to pass when Pharaoh shall call you and shall say, What is your occupation?

Flocks and Herds

Genesis 47:3

And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy slaves are pastors of sheep, both we and also our fathers.

Genesis 4:2

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a pastor of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 9:20

And Noah began to till the ground, and he planted a vineyard;

Genesis 31:18

and he carried away all his livestock and all his goods which he had gotten, the livestock of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, to return unto Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:2

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

Genesis 45:10

And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou and thy sons and thy sons' sons and thy herds and thy cows and all that thou hast.

Genesis 46:34

Then ye shall say, Thy slaves' trade has been about livestock from our youth even until now, both we and also our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every pastor of sheep is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Exodus 3:1

Now as Moses shepherded the sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

1 Samuel 16:11

And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are all thy young men here? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send for him, for we will not sit down to the table until he comes here.

1 Samuel 17:15

But David had gone and returned from being with Saul to feed his father's sheep in Bethlehem.

1 Kings 9:27

And Hiram sent in the navy his slaves, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the slaves of Solomon.

1 Kings 18:5-6

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land to all the fountains of water and to all the brooks; peradventure we may find herbage to save the horses and mules alive that we not lose all the beasts.

Psalm 78:70-72

He chose David also his slave and took him from the sheepfolds,

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Zechariah 13:5

but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman of the land; for I learned this from man from my youth.