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

Then he answered him, My lord knoweth, that the children are tender, and the ewes and kine with yong vnder mine hande: and if they should ouerdriue them one day, all the flocke would die.

Let now my lord go before his seruant, and I will driue softly, according to ye pase of ye cattel, which is before me, and as the children be able to endure, vntill I come to my lord vnto Seir.

Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.