Objects

livestock

Livestock marks patriarchal wealth and, in Genesis 47, Egyptians exchange their livestock for food when money runs out during the famine.

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Objects

First mention

Genesis 13:2

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2

Genesis 13, 20, 26-27, 30-32, 36, 46-47Pastoral life

Scripture references

  • Genesis 13:2

    Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.

  • Genesis 13:7

    Dispute broke out between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and those of Lot.

  • Genesis 20:14

    Abimelech took sheep, cattle, men and women slaves, and presented them to Abraham...

  • Genesis 26:14

    He acquired flocks and herds and a large retinue. The Philistines began to envy him.

  • Genesis 27:9

    Go to the flock and bring me back two good kids, so that I can make the kind of special dish your father likes.

  • Genesis 30:32

    Go through your entire flock today and remove every black animal among the sheep, and every speckled or spotted one among the goats.

  • Genesis 30:43

    Thus the man grew extremely rich, and came to own large flocks, men and women slaves, camels and donkeys.

  • Genesis 31:18

    and drove off all his livestock -- with all the possessions he had acquired, the livestock belonging to him which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram -- to go to his father Isaac in Canaan.

  • Genesis 32:6

    and I own oxen, beasts of burden and flocks, and men and women slaves.

  • Genesis 36:6

    Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters, all the members of his household, his livestock, all his cattle and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan and left for Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

  • Genesis 36:7

    For they had acquired too much to live together. The land in which they were at that time could not support them both because of their livestock.

  • Genesis 46:6

    Taking their livestock and all that they had acquired in Canaan, they arrived in Egypt -- Jacob and all his offspring.

  • Genesis 46:32

    The men are shepherds and look after livestock, and they have brought their flocks and cattle and all their possessions."

  • Genesis 46:34

    you are to say, "Ever since our boyhood your servants have looked after livestock, we and our fathers before us," so that you can stay in the Goshen region -- for the Egyptians have a horror of all shepherds.'

  • Genesis 47:16

    Joseph replied, 'Hand over your livestock and I shall issue you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money has come to an end.'

  • Genesis 47:17

    So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for horses and livestock, whether sheep or cattle, and for donkeys. Thus he saw them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.