23 Bible Verses about Possessing Sheep
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And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a pastor of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menslaves and maidslaves and she asses and camels.
And the LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he is become great; and he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and menslaves and maidslaves and camels and asses.
for he had possession of flocks, possession of herds, great store of servants, and the Philistines envied him.
His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she asses, and a very great store of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and menslaves and womenslaves and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife.
And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
And it came to pass 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.
And the man increased exceedingly, and had many sheep, and maidslaves and menslaves, and camels, and asses.
and I have oxen and asses, flocks, and menslaves, and womenslaves; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed, and he divided the people that were with him, and the sheep and the cows and the camels, into two bands
two hundred she goats and twenty he goats, two hundred sheep and twenty rams,
And the tribute for the LORD, of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.
And the half which was the portion of those that went out to war was in number three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep.
(now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred sheep
And the prey, that is the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep
And he said, I will send thee from the sheep a kid from the goats. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge until thou send it?
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand; but he did not find her.
Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land, from the rock of the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
And they brought their livestock unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses and for the sheep and for the bovine livestock and for the asses, and he fed them with bread for all their livestock that year.
but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and it grew up together with him and with his children; it ate of his own food and drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
They took their sheep and their oxen and their asses and that which was in the city and that which was in the field