Bible Verses About Sheep: Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age
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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Verses on Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.