sheep

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.

• 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.

• Exodus 12:5

  It must be an animal without blemish, a male one year old; you may choose it either from the sheep or from the goats.

• Exodus 20:24

  You must make me an altar of earth on which to sacrifice your burnt offerings and communion sacrifices, your sheep and cattle. Wherever I choose to have my name remembered, I shall come to you and bless you.

• Exodus 21:37

  'If anyone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he will pay back five beasts from the herd for the ox, and four animals from the flock for the sheep.'

• Exodus 22:3

  If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, be it ox, donkey or animal from the flock, he will pay back double.