Deuteronomy 22:1

'Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother;

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Thou shalt not see the brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

In Context

2and if thy brother [is] not near unto thee, and thou hast not known him, then thou hast removed it unto the midst of thy house, and it hath been with thee till thy brother seek it, and thou hast given it back to him;

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:4'And if the people of the land really hide their eyes from that man, in his giving of his seed to the Molech, so as not to put him to death,

Proverbs 24:11If [from] delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter — thou keepest back.

Isaiah 8:17And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

Ezekiel 34:4The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.

Matthew 10:6and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 18:12'What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not — having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains — seek that which is gone astray?

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 22:1

The laws of this chapter provide, I. For the preservation of charity and good neighbourship, in the care of strayed or fallen cattle, ver. 1-4 . II. For the preservation of order and distinction, that men and women should not wear one another's clothes ( ver. 5 ), and that other needless mixtures should be avoided, ver. 9-11 . III. For the preservation of birds, ver. 6, 7 . IV. Of life, ver. 8 . V. Of the commandments, ver. 12 . VI. Of the reputation of a wife abused, if she were innocent ( ver. 13-19 ), but for… Read the whole commentary →

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