Genesis 46:32

Jacob And His Offspring Go To Egypt

³¹ Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household who [were] in the land of Canaan have come to me. ³² And the men [are] shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.' ³³ And it shall be [that] when Pharaoh calls you he will say, 'What [is] your occupation?'

Flocks and Herds

Genesis 47:3

And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What [is] your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants [are] keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors."

Genesis 4:2

{Then she bore} his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 9:20

And Noah began [to be] a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard.

Genesis 31:18

And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 37:2

These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he [was] a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.

Genesis 45:10

You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

Genesis 46:34

Then you must say, 'You servants [are] men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,' so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd [is] a detestable thing to Egyptians."

Exodus 3:1

And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west [of] the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

1 Samuel 16:11

Then Samuel said to Jesse, "{Are all the young men here}?" And he said, "The youngest still remains, but look, he [is] shepherding the flock." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we cannot {sit down} until he comes here."

1 Samuel 17:15

but David went {back and forth} from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem.

1 Kings 9:27

Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, {sailors} who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Kings 18:5-6

Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals."

Psalm 78:70-72

And he chose David his servant and took him from [the] sheepfolds.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather [the] lambs in his arm, and he will carry [them] in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse.

Zechariah 13:5

but he will say, "I [am] not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth."