And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.