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What Does “Flock (the fold)” Mean in the Bible?

A flock of sheep or goats. Also the community of the faithful cared for by a shepherd.

Where it appears in the Bible

Luke 2:8; Exodus 3:1

What the Bible says

Luke 2:8

And there were in the same country shepherds watching, and keeping the night watches over their flock.

Exodus 3:1

Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “grey”

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