Flocks and herds

1. Gen. 13: 5
   5 ¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
2. Gen. 24: 35
   35 And the Lord hath ^ablessed my master greatly; and he is become ^bgreat: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
3. Gen. 26: 14
   14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines ^aenvied him.
4. Gen. 32: 7
   7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and ^adistressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
5. Gen. 33: 13
   13 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.
6. Gen. 45: 10
   10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of ^aGoshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
7. Gen. 46: 32
   32 And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
8. Gen. 47: 1, 17
   1 Then Joseph came and told ^aPharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of ^bGoshen.
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   17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
9. Gen. 50: 8
   8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of ^aGoshen.
10. Ex. 10: 9, 24
    9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our ^aold, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a ^bfeast unto the Lord.
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    24 ¶ And Pharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds ^abe stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
11. Ex. 12: 32, 38
    32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
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    38 And ^aa mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
12. Ex. 34: 3
    3 And no man shall ^acome up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
13. Lev. 1: 2
    2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.
14. Lev. 27: 32
    32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the ^arod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
15. Num. 11: 22
    22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
16. Num. 15: 3
    3 And will make an ^aoffering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock:
17. Deut. 8: 13
    13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
18. Deut. 12: 6, 17, 21
    6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt ^aofferings, and your sacrifices, and your ^btithes, and ^cheave offerings of your hand, and your ^dvows, and your freewill offerings, and the ^efirstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
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    17 ¶ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy ^acorn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
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    21 If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
19. Deut. 14: 23
    23 And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.
20. Deut. 15: 19
    19 ¶ All the ^afirstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt ^bsanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy ^cbullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
21. Deut. 16: 2
    2 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the ^apassover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the ^bplace which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.
22. 1 Sam. 30: 20
    20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
23. 2 Sam. 12: 2, 4
    2 The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:
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    4 And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
24. 2 Chr. 32: 29
    29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.
25. Neh. 10: 36
    36 Also the ^afirstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
26. Prov. 27: 23
    23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy ^aflocks, and look well to thy herds.
27. Isa. 65: 10
    10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of ^aAchor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
28. Jer. 3: 24
    24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
29. Jer. 5: 17
    17 And they shall ^aeat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.
30. Jer. 31: 12
    12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not ^asorrow any more at all.
31. Hosea 5: 6
    6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord; but they shall not find him; he hath ^awithdrawn himself from them.
32. Joel 1: 18
    18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
33. Jonah 3: 7
    7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
34. Hab. 3: 17
    17 ¶ Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
35. 2 Ne. 5: 11
    11 And the Lord was with us; and we did ^aprosper exceedingly; for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in abundance. And we began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of every kind.
36. Enos 1: 21
    21 And it came to pass that the people of Nephi did till the land, and ^araise all manner of grain, and of fruit, and ^bflocks of herds, and flocks of all manner of cattle of every kind, and goats, and wild goats, and also many horses.
37. Mosiah 7: 22
    22 And all this he did, for the sole purpose of ^abringing this people into subjection or into bondage. And behold, we at this time do pay ^btribute to the king of the Lamanites, to the amount of one half of our corn, and our barley, and even all our grain of every kind, and one half of the increase of our flocks and our herds; and even one half of all we have or possess the king of the Lamanites doth exact of us, or our lives.
38. Mosiah 21: 16
    16 And it came to pass that they began to prosper by degrees in the land, and began to raise grain more abundantly, and flocks, and herds, that they did not suffer with hunger.
39. Mosiah 22: 2, 6, 8, 11
    2 And it came to pass that they could find no way to deliver themselves out of bondage, except it were to take their women and children, and their flocks, and their herds, and their tents, and depart into the wilderness; for the Lamanites being so numerous, it was impossible for the people of Limhi to contend with them, thinking to deliver themselves out of bondage by the sword.
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    6 Behold the back pass, through the back wall, on the back side of the city. The Lamanites, or the ^aguards of the Lamanites, by night are ^bdrunken; therefore let us send a proclamation among all this people that they gather together their flocks and herds, that they may drive them into the wilderness by night.
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    8 Thus we will depart with our women and our children, our flocks, and our herds into the wilderness; and we will travel around the land of ^aShilom.
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    11 And it came to pass that the people of king Limhi did ^adepart by night into the wilderness with their flocks and their herds, and they went round about the land of ^bShilom in the wilderness, and bent their course towards the land of Zarahemla, being led by Ammon and his brethren.
40. Alma 1: 29
    29 And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly ^arich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of ^bsilk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely ^ccloth.
41. Alma 3: 2
    2 Now many women and children had been slain with the sword, and also many of their flocks and their herds; and also many of their fields of grain were destroyed, for they were trodden down by the hosts of men.
42. Alma 4: 2, 6
    2 But the people were afflicted, yea, greatly afflicted for the loss of their brethren, and also for the ^aloss of their flocks and herds, and also for the loss of their fields of grain, which were trodden under foot and destroyed by the Lamanites.
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    6 And it came to pass in the *eighth year of the reign of the judges, that the people of the church began to wax proud, because of their exceeding ^ariches, and their ^bfine silks, and their fine-twined linen, and because of their many flocks and herds, and their gold and their silver, and all manner of precious things, which they had obtained by their ^cindustry; and in all these things were they lifted up in the pride of their eyes, for they began to wear very costly ^dapparel.
43. Alma 7: 27
    27 And now, may the ^apeace of God rest upon you, and upon your houses and lands, and upon your flocks and herds, and all that you possess, your women and your children, according to your faith and good works, from this time forth and forever. And thus I have spoken. Amen.
44. Alma 27: 14
    14 And they gathered together all their people, yea, all the people of the Lord, and did gather together all their flocks and herds, and departed out of the land, and came into the wilderness which divided the land of Nephi from the land of Zarahemla, and came over near the borders of the land.
45. Alma 62: 29
    29 Therefore, all the prisoners of the Lamanites did join the people of Ammon, and did begin to labor exceedingly, tilling the ground, raising all manner of grain, and flocks and herds of every kind; and thus were the Nephites relieved from a great burden; yea, insomuch that they were relieved from all the prisoners of the Lamanites.
46. Hel. 6: 12
    12 They did raise grain in abundance, both in the north and in the south; and they did flourish exceedingly, both in the north and in the south. And they did multiply and wax exceedingly strong in the land. And they did raise many flocks and herds, yea, many fatlings.
47. Hel. 12: 2
    2 Yea, and we may see at the very ^atime when he doth ^bprosper his people, yea, in the increase of their fields, their flocks and their herds, and in gold, and in silver, and in all manner of ^cprecious things of every kind and art; sparing their lives, and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; softening the hearts of their enemies that they should not declare wars against them; yea, and in fine, doing all things for the welfare and happiness of his people; yea, then is the time that they do ^dharden their hearts, and do ^eforget the Lord their God, and do ^ftrample under their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity.
48. 3 Ne. 3: 13, 22
    13 Yea, he sent a proclamation among all the people, that they should ^agather together their women, and their children, their flocks and their herds, and all their substance, save it were their land, unto one place.
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    22 And it came to pass in the *seventeenth year, in the latter end of the year, the proclamation of Lachoneus had gone forth throughout all the face of the land, and they had taken their ^ahorses, and their chariots, and their cattle, and all their flocks, and their herds, and their grain, and all their substance, and did march forth by thousands and by tens of thousands, until they had all gone forth to the ^bplace which ^chad been appointed that they should gather themselves together, to defend themselves against their enemies.
49. 3 Ne. 4: 3
    3 And the robbers could not exist save it were in the wilderness, for the want of food; for the Nephites had left their lands desolate, and had gathered their flocks and their herds and all their substance, and they were in one body.
50. 3 Ne. 6: 1
    1 And now it came to pass that the people of the Nephites did all return to their own lands in the *twenty and sixth year, every man, with his family, his flocks and his herds, his ^ahorses and his cattle, and all things whatsoever did belong unto them.
51. Ether 6: 4
    4 And it came to pass that when they had prepared all manner of ^afood, that thereby they might subsist upon the water, and also food for their flocks and herds, and ^bwhatsoever beast or animal or fowl that they should carry with them—and it came to pass that when they had done all these things they got aboard of their vessels or barges, and set forth into the sea, commending themselves unto the Lord their God.
52. Ether 10: 12
    12 And it came to pass that Morianton built up many cities, and the people became exceedingly rich under his reign, both in buildings, and in ^agold and silver, and in raising grain, and in flocks, and herds, and such things which had been restored unto them.
53. D&C 136: 11
    11 And if ye do this with a pure heart, in all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be ^ablessed in your flocks, and in your herds, and in your fields, and in your houses, and in your families.