I didn’t bring you animals torn by wild beasts. I myself would bear the loss. You would require it from my hand, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
These past twenty years I’ve been with you, your ewes and female goats have never miscarried, and I’ve never eaten the rams of your flock.
I was consumed by heat during the day, consumed by frost during the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.
“If a man entrusts his neighbor with a donkey, ox, sheep or any animal to care for, and it dies, is hurt or taken away with no one seeing,
A carcass or what is torn by beasts he is not to eat, becoming unclean by it. I am Adonai.
Now there were shepherds in the same region, living out in the fields and guarding their flock at night.