'Goats' in the Bible
Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:
And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck:
Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.
And so you will be able to put my honour to the test in time to come; if you see among my flocks any goats which are not marked or coloured, or any sheep which is not black, you may take me for a thief.
So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;
And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.
And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.
These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.
Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,