Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face ¹  the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban’s flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban’s flocks.

Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem ¹  during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

You led your people like a flock of sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves.

They allow their children to run ¹  like a flock; their little ones dance about.

The Lord my God says this: “Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

Now Lot, who was traveling ¹  with Abram, also had ²  flocks, herds, and tents.

The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

The leaders will not be able to run away and hide. ¹  The shepherds of the flocks will not be able to escape.

Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink. ¹ 

When the sheep mated ¹  in front of the branches, they ²  gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

So I ¹  began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted ²  of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, ³  calling one “Pleasantness” ⁴  and the other “Binders,” ⁵  and I tended the flock.

He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

Then I said, ¹  “Look up, Jerusalem, ²  and see the enemy ³  that is coming from the north. Where now is the flock of people that were entrusted to your care? ⁴  Where now are the ‘sheep’ that you take such pride in? ⁵ 

The seacoast ¹  will be used as pasture lands ²  by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.

So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah ¹  to come to the field ²  where his flocks were. ³ 

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

He replied, “I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell ¹  me where they are grazing their flocks.”

A mixed multitude ¹  also went up with them, and flocks and herds – a very large number of cattle. ² 

Men ¹  move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. ²