Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

“As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.

I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.

“Thus says the Lord God: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.

Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.

For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided.

And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.