Deuteronomy 22:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him.

Cross References

Matthew 7:12

All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.

Deuteronomy 22:1

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

Deuteronomy 22:3

Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.