...NUMEROUS FLOCKS. The sacred history goes on to state that " the flocks and herds of Abraham and Lot were so great that the land was not able to bear them." There was not sufficient pasture for the support of their united flocks. The Scriptures often speak...

...tents and have cattle" (1894, 9). According to the Bible, "the flocks and herds of Abraham and Lot were so great that the land was not able to bear them," and "Job had 14,000 sheep as well as oxen and camels" (qtd. in Youatt 1894, 9). In sum, sheep— often...