If then Pharaoh calls you, and says to you, What is your occupation?

You shall say, We your servants are herdsmen from our youth until now, both we and our fathers: that you may dwell in the land of Goshen of Arabia, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

And Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a sheepbreeder, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits.

And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to My people Israel.

And they said to him, Tell us, what is your occupation, and where do you come from, and of what country and of what people are you?

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat!

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.