Genesis 4:2; Genesis 4:4; Genesis 12:16; Genesis 13:5; Genesis 20:14; Genesis 21:27; Genesis 21:28; Genesis 24:35; Genesis 26:14; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 29:2; Genesis 29:3; Genesis 29:6; Genesis 29:7; Genesis 29:8; Genesis 29:9; Genesis 29:10; Genesis 30:31; Genesis 30:32; Genesis 30:36; Genesis 30:38; Genesis 30:39; Genesis 30:40; Genesis 30:41; Genesis 30:42; Genesis 30:43; Genesis 31:4; Genesis 31:8; Genesis 31:10; Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:38; Genesis 31:41; Genesis 31:43; Genesis 32:5; Genesis 32:7; Genesis 33:13; Genesis 34:28; Genesis 37:2; Genesis 37:12; Genesis 37:14; Genesis 38:12; Genesis 38:13; Genesis 38:17; Genesis 45:10; Genesis 46:32; Genesis 47:1; Genesis 47:4; Genesis 47:17; Genesis 50:8

Genesis 4:2

2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

Genesis 4:4

4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

Genesis 12:16

16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 13:5

5 Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

Genesis 20:14

14 Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him.

Genesis 21:27

27 So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.

Genesis 21:28

28 Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Genesis 24:35

35 The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 26:14

14 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 27:9

9 Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

Genesis 29:2

2 There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

Genesis 29:3

3 When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:6

6 Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?” “Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

Genesis 29:7

7 “Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”

Genesis 29:8

8 “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Genesis 29:9

9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd.

Genesis 29:10

10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Genesis 30:31

31 “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

Genesis 30:32

32 Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

Genesis 30:36

36 Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 30:38

38 Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink,

Genesis 30:39

39 they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

Genesis 30:40

40 Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

Genesis 30:41

41 Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches,

Genesis 30:42

42 but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.

Genesis 30:43

43 In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31:4

4 So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were.

Genesis 31:8

8 If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked young.

Genesis 31:10

10 “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.

Genesis 31:19

19 When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Genesis 31:38

38 “I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Genesis 31:41

41 It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 31:43

43 Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

Genesis 32:5

5 I have cattle and donkeys, sheep and goats, male and female servants. Now I am sending this message to my lord, that I may find favor in your eyes.’ ”

Genesis 32:7

7 In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well.

Genesis 33:13

13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 34:28

28 They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields.

Genesis 37:2

2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Genesis 37:12

12 Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

Genesis 37:14

14 So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

Genesis 38:12

12 After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

Genesis 38:13

13 When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

Genesis 38:17

17 “I’ll send you a young goat from my flock,” he said. “Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?” she asked.

Genesis 45:10

10 You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.

Genesis 46:32

32 The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks and herds and everything they own.’

Genesis 47:1

1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:4

4 They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:17

17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

Genesis 50:8

8 besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.