Deuteronomy 22:1
Good News Translation
"If you see an Israelite's cow or sheep running loose, do not ignore it; take it back.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not watch your neighbor’s ox or sheep straying away and ignore them; you shall take them back to their owner.

Contemporary English Version
If you see a cow or sheep wandering around lost, take the animal back to its owner.

New American Bible
You shall not see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray and ignore it; you must bring it back.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.

Thou shalt

Exodus 23:4 If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.

Ezekiel 34:4,16 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand. . . .

Matthew 10:6 But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24 And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep, that are lost of the house of Israel.

Matthew 18:12,13 What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and goeth to seek that which is gone astray? . . .

Luke 15:4-6 What man of you that hath an hundred sheep, and if he shall lose one of them, doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after that which was lost, until he find it? . . .

James 5:19,20 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth and one convert him: . . .

1 Peter 2:25 For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

hide thyself

Deuteronomy 22:3,4 Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing that is thy brother's, which is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another. . . .

Leviticus 20:4 And if the people of the land neglecting, and as it were little regarding my commandment, let alone the man that hath given of his seed to Moloch, and will not kill him:

Proverbs 24:11 Deliver them that are led to death: and those that are drawn to death, forbear not to deliver.

Proverbs 28:27 He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence.

Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 58:7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Luke 10:31,32 And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by. . . .

Context
Various Laws
1Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox, or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back to thy brother.2And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:9
For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

Exodus 23:4
If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.

Exodus 23:5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.

Leviticus 6:3
Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

Deuteronomy 22:2
And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not: thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.

Proverbs 27:10
Thy own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off.

Isaiah 58:7
Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Zechariah 7:9
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: Judge ye true judgment, and shew ye mercy and compassion every man to his brother.

Deuteronomy 21:23
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