Luke 2:8
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8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.
Psalm 78:70-71
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1 Samuel 17:34-35
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34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion(A) or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized(B) it by its hair, struck it and killed it.
Genesis 31:39-40
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39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen(A) by day or night.(B) 40 This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.(C)
John 10:8-12
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8 All who have come before me(A) are thieves and robbers,(B) but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.[a] They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,(C) and have it to the full.(D)
11 “I am(E) the good shepherd.(F) The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.(G) 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away.(H) Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it.
Footnotes
- John 10:9 Or kept safe
Ezekiel 34:8
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8 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered(A) and has become food for all the wild animals,(B) and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock,(C)
Exodus 3:1-2
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Moses and the Burning Bush
3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro(A) his father-in-law, the priest of Midian,(B) and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb,(C) the mountain(D) of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord(E) appeared to him in flames of fire(F) from within a bush.(G) Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
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