In Genesis 8:7, 'shepherds of cattle' signify people who teach and thus things pertaining to worship. 'The shepherds of Abram's cattle' are celestial things pertaining to the internal self, and 'the shepherds of Lot's cattle' are sensory things which pertain to the external self.

(सन्दर्भ: Arcana Coelestia 1571, 1572)