She sheared a ewe.

And thus the lion fell in love with the ewe.

For after the time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of divers colours, and spotted, and speckled.

And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau: two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and twenty bulls, twenty she-asses, and ten of their foals.

And Abraham set apart seven ewelambs of the flock. And Abimelech said to him: What mean these seven ewelambs which thou hast set apart?

I am shearing the ewe.

He found her making some cheese of the milk she had drawn from her ewes and he told her the good news.

Chloe, when she had milked her ewes, and sometimes Daphnis' goats as well, had great difficulty in making the milk curdle, for the gnats were very troublesome and if she flapped them away they stung her.

For lo, the ewe goat was comely in appearance, hence the shepherd knew her twice upon the hill.

But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well.