1Thou 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. …
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The kindness that was commanded to be shown in reference to an enemy ( Exod. 23:4 , 5 ) is here required to be much more done for a neighbour, though he were not an Israelite, for the law is consonant to natural equity. 1. That strayed cattle should be brought back, either to the owner or to the pasture out of which they had gone astray, Deut. 22:1 , 2 . This must be done in pity to the very cattl…
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