Wadi Musa
Beit Sahour was first settled in the 14th century by a handful of Christian and Muslim clans ("hamula") from Wadi Musa in Jordan, the Christian Jaraisa and the Muslim Shaybat and Jubran, who came to work as shepherds for Bethlehem's Christian landowners, and they were subsequently joined by other Greek Orthodox immigrants from Egypt in the 17th–18th centuries.