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Bible Verses About Shepherd: Waters the flocks

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  1. And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

  2. Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

  3. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

  4. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

  5. That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Verses on Waters the flocks

  1. 2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

    3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.

    4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

    5And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

    6And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

    7And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

    8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

    9And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

    10And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.