Jacob answered, "You know how I have worked for you and how your flocks have prospered under my care.

"What shall I pay you?" Laban asked. Jacob answered, "I don't want any wages. I will continue to take care of your flocks if you agree to this suggestion:

Jacob said to Joseph, "I want you to go to Shechem, where your brothers are taking care of the flock." Joseph answered, "I am ready."

I will tell him that you are shepherds and take care of livestock and that you have brought your flocks and herds and everything else that belongs to you.

be sure to tell him that you have taken care of livestock all your lives, just as your ancestors did. In this way he will let you live in the region of Goshen." Joseph said this because Egyptians will have nothing to do with shepherds.

The king asked them, "What is your occupation?" "We are shepherds, sir, just as our ancestors were," they answered.

One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain.

He chose his servant David; he took him from the pastures,

David took care of them with unselfish devotion and led them with skill.

But the LORD took me from my work as a shepherd and ordered me to come and prophesy to his people Israel.

Adam and his wife had another son. She said, "God has given me a son to replace Abel, whom Cain killed." So she named him Seth.

Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the LORD's holy name in worship.

Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a real blessing.

You are the children of your father, the Devil, and you want to follow your father's desires. From the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.

Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them.

So the LORD God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.

Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard.