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.

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.

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

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

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

And do not lord it over ¹  those entrusted to you, ²  but be examples to the flock.

If he said, ¹  ‘The speckled animals ²  will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.

Now Moses ¹  was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert ²  and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. ³ 

David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. ¹ 

When some ¹  shepherds came and drove them away, ²  Moses came up and defended them ³  and then watered their flock.

Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

Yet he protected ¹  the needy from oppression, and cared for his families like a flock of sheep.

Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

When you have finished purifying it, you will offer an unblemished young bull and an unblemished ram from the flock.

Now ¹  there were shepherds ²  nearby ³  living out in the field, keeping guard ⁴  over their flock at night.

“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased ¹  to give you the kingdom.

I know that after I am gone ¹  fierce wolves ²  will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

But Abel brought ¹  some of the firstborn of his flock – even the fattest ²  of them. And the Lord was pleased with ³  Abel and his offering,