Bible Verses About Shepherds: Tenderness to the ewes in lamb, and to the young

And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.

May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.