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Sheep In The Bible

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Sheep were used for a few purposes in the in the Bible, one of them being sacrifices to God. This was a sign to God of apology and love. We also see sheep given as gifts, for instance, in Exodus gives Jacob, his brother, a multitude of sheep to show peace and love towards him and in 1 Kings the Queen of Sheba gave Solomon one hundred sheep as a gift. Sheep were a lot like dogs back then, a large percent of the population had sheep, and because of this, there were a lot of people like Moses and David who had to take care of them.
In order to sacrifice an animal to God, according to the Torah it had to be a one year old male, perfect and without blemish. This ties to the first Passover, when God sent His last plague to the nation of Pharaoh,
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