Bible Verses About Sheep: Offered in sacrifice from the earliest age

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. The LORD respected Abel and his offering,

Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.