Deuteronomy 22:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ “When you see your brother’s ox or his sheep straying away, you shall not hide yourself from them. Return them to your brother without fail.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ YOU SHALL not see your brother's ox or his sheep being driven away or stolen, and hide yourself from [your duty to help] them; you shall surely take them back to your brother. [Prov. 24:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹ Don’t just watch your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep wandering around and do nothing about it. You must return the animal to its owner.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ "If you see your brother's ox or sheep wander astray, you shall not pass by. Instead, you shall lead them back to your brother.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ 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.

Deuteronomy 22:1 Cross References

Proverbs 24:11

Deliver those taken to death, And hold back those stumbling to the kill,

Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.

Proverbs 28:27

He who gives to the poor does not lack, But he who hides his eyes does have many curses.

Isaiah 58:7

“Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Isaiah 8:17

And I shall wait on יהוה, who hides His face from the house of Ya‛aqoḇ. And I shall look for Him.

Ezekiel 34:16

“I shall seek out the lost and bring back the strayed. And I shall bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick, but the fat and the strong I shall destroy. I shall feed them with right-ruling.”

Ezekiel 34:4

“You have not strengthened the weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back the straying, nor sought what was lost; but you have ruled them with might and harshness.

Leviticus 20:4

‘And if the people of the land at all hide their eyes from the man, as he gives any of his offspring to Moleḵ, and they do not kill him,

Leviticus 6:3

or has found what was lost and has lied concerning it, or did swear falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of all these that a man does,

Zechariah 7:9

“Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘Execute true right-ruling, show loving-commitment and compassion everyone to his brother.

Matthew 10:6

but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.

Matthew 15:24

And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.”

1 Corinthians 9:9

For it has been written in the Torah of Mosheh, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it about oxen Elohim is concerned?

Deuteronomy 22:2

“And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it, then you shall return it to him.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your beings.