New Revised Standard Version
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

Contemporary English Version
That night in the fields near Bethlehem some shepherds were guarding their sheep.

New American Bible
Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over their flock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock.

And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock.

abiding.

Genesis 31:39,40 Neither did I shew thee that which the beast had torn; I made good all the damage: whatsoever was lost by theft, thou didst exact it of me: . . .

Exodus 3:1,2 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. . . .

1 Samuel 17:34,35 And David said to Saul: Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, or a bear, and took a ram out of the midst of the flock: . . .

Psalm 78:70,71 And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, . . .

Ezekiel 34:8 As I live, saith the Lord God, forasmuch as my flocks have been made a spoil, and my sheep are become a prey to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd: for my shepherds did not seek after my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flocks:

John 10:8-12 All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not. . . .

watch over their flock by night.