Objects

sheep

Sheep mark pastoral wealth and appear at the well where Jacob meets Rachel, in Laban's flock-wages dispute in Genesis 30, and at Judah's sheep-shearing at Timnah in Genesis 38.

Scripture references

Genesis 20:14
Abimelech took sheep, cattle, men and women slaves...
Genesis 21:27
Abraham then took sheep and cattle and presented them to Abimelech...
Genesis 29:2
he saw a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it; this well was used for watering the flocks.
Genesis 29:10
rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.
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 30:35
That same day he removed the striped and speckled he-goats and all the spotted and speckled she-goats, every one that had white on it, and all the black sheep, and entrusted these to his sons.
Genesis 31:19
Laban was away, shearing his sheep;
Genesis 32:15
two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
Genesis 34:28
They seized their flocks, cattle, donkeys, everything else in the town and in the countryside,
Genesis 38:12
After Judah had been comforted he went up to Timnah for the shearing of his sheep, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.