the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.

So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

But the Lord will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

The field and the cave in it were acquired from the sons of Heth.”

His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

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

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

And the Lord did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

I purchased male and female slaves, and I owned slaves who were born in my house; I also possessed more livestock – both herds and flocks – than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.

He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

Tell him, ‘Your servants have taken care of cattle from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting to the Egyptians.”

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,

He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.

I said, “I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”