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she-goat

She-goats appear in Abram's covenant rite, in Rebekah's meal for Isaac, among the droves Jacob sends to Esau, and as the kid Judah promises Tamar at Enaim in Genesis 38.

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Objects

First mention

Genesis 15:9

Tags

2

Genesis 15, 27, 32, 37-38Animal

Scripture references

  • Genesis 15:9

    Bring me ... a three-year-old she-goat...

  • 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 27:16

    covering his arms and the smooth part of his neck with the skins of the kids.

  • Genesis 32:15

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

  • Genesis 37:31

    They took Joseph's tunic and, slaughtering a goat, dipped the tunic in the blood.

  • Genesis 38:17

    'I will send you a kid from the flock,' he said.

  • Genesis 38:20

    Judah sent the kid by his friend the Adullamite, to recover the pledge from the woman.