When a goat was killed, its skin was often impregnated with fat and sewn up to become a water carrier (a goatskin bottle). The problem with settlement was that people could not take their sheep out to pasture. A shepherd was therefore employed to look after the sheep for the whole village. It was not worthwhile to sell off one’s sheep, because there was more security in them than at first appeared. Proverbs 27:23–27 sets out the wisdom of the bedouin — real wealth does not lie in jewelry but in