sheep and goats

  • 1The Sheep and the Goats — or The Judgment of the Nations was a discourse of Jesus recorded in the New Testament. It is sometimes characterized as a Parable, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other characters.One… …

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  • 2Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival — Dorset ram at the 2010 festival Begins First full weekend in May Ends Sunday Frequency …

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  • 3Debate between sheep and grain — Fertile Crescent myth series Mesopotamian …

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  • 4New York State Sheep and Wool Festival — Keyed fiddle at the 2006 festival Begins Third weekend in October Ends Sunday Frequency A …

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  • 5SHEEP —    Sheep and goats, which had been reared since the Neolithic in central Italy, continued to form an important component of the agricultural system together with cattle and pigs …

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  • 6Sheep — For other uses, see Sheep (disambiguation). Domestic sheep A research flo …

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  • 7Sheep-goat hybrid — A sheep–goat hybrid is the hybrid offspring of a sheep and a goat. Although sheep and goats seem similar and can be mated together, they belong to different genera. Goats belong to the genus Capra and have 60 chromosomes, while sheep belong to… …

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  • 8SHEEP — In the Bible the term ẓon indicates both sheep and goats (Lev. 1:10; 3:6; et al.); only once does it refer to sheep alone, as distinct from izzim ( goats ; I Sam. 25:2). In the Mishnah both are referred to as behemah dakkah ( small cattle ). The… …

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  • 9separate sheep from goats —    If you separate the sheep from the goats, you examine a group of people and decide which are suitable and which are not.     Examining job applications is the first stage in separating the sheep from the goats …

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  • 10sheep — [ ʃip ] (plural sheep) noun count ** 1. ) an animal kept by farmers for its wool or meat. The male sheep is called a ram and the female is a ewe. A young sheep is called a lamb. Meat from a young sheep is called lamb and from an older sheep is… …

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