Genesis 31:40
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40 It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
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1 Peter 5:2-4
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2 to tend the flock of God that is in your charge, exercising the oversight,[a] not under compulsion but willingly, as God would have you do it,[b] not for sordid gain but eagerly.(A) 3 Do not lord it over those in your charge, but be examples to the flock.(B) 4 And when the chief shepherd appears, you will win the crown of glory that never fades away.(C)
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Hebrews 13:7
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7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke the word of God to you; consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
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John 21:15-17
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Jesus and Peter
15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”(A) 16 A second time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.”(B) 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” And he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.(C)
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Luke 2:8
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The Shepherds and the Angels
8 Now in that same region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.
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Hosea 12:12
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12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
there Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he guarded sheep.[a](A)
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- 12.12 Heb lacks sheep
Psalm 78:70-71
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70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(A)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(B)
Exodus 3:1
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Moses at the Burning Bush
3 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb,[a] the mountain of God.(A)
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- 3.1 Gk: Heb reads to the mountain of God, to Horeb
Exodus 2:19-22
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19 They said, “An Egyptian helped us against the shepherds; he even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 He said to his daughters, “Where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to share a meal.”(A) 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah in marriage.(B) 22 She bore a son, and he named him Gershom,[a] for he said, “I have been an alien residing in a foreign land.”(C)
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- 2.22 In Heb Gershom resembles the word for alien
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