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

Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.