Luke 2:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock.

Cross References

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—because my sheep became plunder, because my sheep became food for wild beasts, for lack of a shepherd, because my shepherds did not look after my sheep, but pastured themselves and did not pasture my sheep,

Luke 2:7

and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

Luke 2:9

The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were struck with great fear.