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

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.

Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

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