When the Jewish people were exiled from the land of Israel, their sheep followed.

Now one couple is determined to get the biblical sheep, known as Jacob Sheep, back.

Jenna and Gil Lewinsky are the directors of Friends of the Jacob Sheep and they are on a mission to get the sheep returned to their original lands.

“After the Jewish exiles the sheep lost contact with their Jewish owners and have endured their own exile over the ages until the present day,” the Lewinskys wrote in a recent J-Post op-ed.

The sheep are said to be the descendants of Jacob’s original flock which he split with Laban in Genesis, creating a lineage of sheep that always produced speckled offspring.

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