Trouvé 61 Résultats pour: Flocks
Lot, his companion, had flocks and herds and a camp of his own, (Genesis 13, 5)
flocks of sheep were his, and herds of cattle, and a great retinue. And now the Philistines, out of envy, (Genesis 26, 14)
Here, in the open plain, he found a well, with three flocks of sheep lying down beside it. It was here that the flocks were watered; but the mouth of the well was closed by a great stone, (Genesis 29, 2)
and it was not the custom to roll this stone away till all the flocks were assembled. When these had had their fill, the stone was put back on the well mouth. (Genesis 29, 3)
Then Jacob said, The sun is still high, and it is a long time before the flocks need to be folded; why do you not water the sheep at once, and take them back to their pasture again? (Genesis 29, 7)
That cannot be done, they answered, until all the herds have assembled here; we wait till then, before we move the stone from the well mouth and water our flocks. (Genesis 29, 8)
Go round all thy flocks, now, and remove from them every sheep that is speckled, or has a blotched fleece. And the hire thou art to pay me shall be all the lambs that are born, even so, grey or spotted or speckled; and so with the kids. (Genesis 30, 32)
Jacob, then, left in charge of the rest of the flocks, did this. He took green branches of poplar, and almond, and plane, and partly peeled them; so that (now the bark had gone) the white shewed through where they had been stripped, whereas the parts he had left untouched remained green; everywhere the colour was varied. (Genesis 30, 37)
These branches he fitted into the troughs where his flocks were watered, so that when they came to drink, they should have these speckled branches before their eyes, and the dams would conceive in full view of them. (Genesis 30, 38)
There, then, were the two flocks divided, and there were Jacob’s branches set up before the very eyes of the rams. All the white (sheep) and all the black (goats) were to be Laban’s, the rest Jacob’s, when the flocks were sorted afresh. (Genesis 30, 40)
So he sent word to Rachel and Lia to meet him on the pasture-ground where he was feeding his flocks, (Genesis 31, 4)
As it was, whenever he said, The speckled beasts shall be thy wages, it was to speckled lambs that all my ewes gave birth; when he changed about, and said, Thou shalt have all the white lambs for thy pay, all my flocks bore white. (Genesis 31, 8)
