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Bible Verses About Sheep

This collection includes 50 passages about Sheep. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

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And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

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But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

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My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

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And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

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And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

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He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

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From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

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I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

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Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

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How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

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For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

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All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

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And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

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The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

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And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

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That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

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The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.

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Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

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And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

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And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

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That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

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And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and her young both in one day.

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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God.

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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

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Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

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He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

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And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

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This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

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And the Lordโ€™s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

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Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

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Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

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And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

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