He taught shepherds to dwell in tents, and to remove them from place to place, for conveniency of pasture. The first authors or inventors of any thing are commonly called its fathers. And he was the inventor of the art of keeping and managing cattle.
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Genesis 4:20
20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.