Exodus 23:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 22:4 : 4 If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

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  • Exod 23:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.

    4If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

  • Deut 22:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

    2If 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.

    3Do 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.

    4If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

  • Exod 22:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

    10If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:

    11If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.

  • Deut 22:10
    73%

    10Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

  • Num 22:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.

    33And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.

  • Exod 23:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

    12For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

  • Deut 28:31
    71%

    31Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

  • Prov 25:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

    22For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.

  • Prov 25:17
    70%

    17Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.

  • Num 22:23
    70%

    23And the ass saw the angel of the Lord waiting in the road with his sword in his hand; and turning from the road, the ass went into the field; and Balaam gave the ass blows, to get her back on to the road.

  • Deut 25:4
    69%

    4Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • Judg 5:10
    69%

    10Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

  • Num 22:27
    69%

    27And the ass saw the angel of the Lord and went down on the earth under Balaam; and full of wrath, Balaam gave her hard blows with his stick.

  • Matt 5:42-43
    2 verses
    69%

    42Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.

    43You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

  • Exod 21:33
    69%

    33If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest.

  • Lev 25:35
    69%

    35And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    69%

    27And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.

  • Num 22:25
    68%

    25And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows.

  • Deut 15:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

    10But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.

  • Luke 14:5
    68%

    5And he said to them, Which of you, whose ox or ass has got into a water-hole, will not straight away get him out on the Sabbath?

  • Lev 19:17
    68%

    17Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

  • Num 22:30
    68%

    30And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.

  • Prov 3:30
    68%

    30Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.

  • Rom 12:20
    68%

    20But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.

  • Deut 24:14
    68%

    14Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • Prov 24:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

    18For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Lev 25:14
    68%

    14And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    68%

    27Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

    28Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.

  • Prov 24:11
    68%

    11Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

  • Ps 10:14
    68%

    14You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

  • Isa 30:6
    68%

    6The word about the Beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and grief, the land of the she-lion and the voice of the lion, of the snake and the burning winged snake, they take their wealth on the backs of young asses, and their stores on camels, to a people in whom is no profit.

  • Deut 15:7
    67%

    7If in any of your towns in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, there is a poor man, one of your countrymen, do not let your heart be hard or your hand shut to him;

  • Prov 12:10
    67%

    10An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

  • Isa 32:20
    67%

    20Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.

  • Exod 21:36
    67%

    36But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.