23 Bible Verses about Possessing Sheep

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper 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 men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.

And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly, and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses.

And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him.

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to 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 cattle, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and men-servants, and women-servants: 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 flocks, and herds, and camels, into two bands;

Two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy five.

And the half which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:

(Now the half that pertained to the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had taken, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock: and she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou sendest 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 found her not.

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.

And they brought their cattle to Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses; and he fed them with bread, for all their cattle, for that year.

But the poor man had nothing save one little ewe-lamb, which he had bought and nourished: and it grew up together with him, and with his children: it fed of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to 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.