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Animal husbandry


Animal husbandry


‎The picture shows, in four rows, livestock that was most important to the people in antiquity. Cattle are depicted in the row at the top. They were raised for meat and milk, but also as draft animals for pulling simple carts or the plow. The row below shows donkeys, the typical pack animal of the Near East. Goats and sheep are pictured in the last two rows. They were the most common livestock; less difficult to raise and providers of milk and meat; they were actually part of every household.
Gen 1:24–26; 6:19; 1 Kings 4:33; Ps 80:13; Ezek 29:11; Dan 4:12

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