Deuteronomy 22:1
If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
2 If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
3 And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
- KJV
- Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
- WEB
- You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
- ASV
- Thou shalt not see thy brother`s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them back unto thy brother.
- BLB
- You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely turn them back to your brother.
- ÅB
- Dersom du ser din brors okse eller lam fare vill, skal du ikke dra deg unna; du skal føre dem tilbake til din bror.
- OTB
- Hvis du ser din landsmanns okse eller sau som har gått seg vill, skal du ikke overse det; du må helt sikkert føre det tilbake til din landsmann.
- B1930
- Dersom du ser din brors okse eller lam fare vill, skal du ikke dra dig unda; du skal føre dem tilbake til din bror.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 23:4–5
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
Read in contextIsaiah 58:7
Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Read in contextProverbs 24:11
Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 22:3–4
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
Read in contextEzekiel 34:16
I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
Read in contextLeviticus 20:4
And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
Read in contextIsaiah 8:17
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
Read in contextMatthew 18:12–13
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?
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