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Originally Posted by Brother V
Good shepherds don't kill their flocks, their sheep live forever... are never sold, aren't sacrificed...
I find it odd that there are still shepherd references used. So far, there haven't been very many keepers of sheep: Abel, actually did. Abraham had a lot of sheep, but he had people do it for him; Rachel kept sheep; Jacob kept them for Laban, but did he actually do any work? Based on how he behaved, I'd guess not; the brothers of Joseph were keeping the flock in Shechem; David kept sheep; after that, there's really no people who actually kept sheep. At least no main characters kept the sheep themselves.
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Intresting, everyone knew about sheep keeping yet no one accutally was a sheepered. I wonder if the problem here is we are not taking this literally enough?
PSALMS 23:1
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
God HIMSELF may have been out there tending to the sheep while the ancient Israelites were off doing their thing. That God was humping it around Judea with a sheep flock would also explain why the Isrealites seemed to deal see God as their guy who comes into town every now and then and not as a constant presence.