Exodus 23:4

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If you come across your enemy's ox or donkey wandering off, you must certainly return it to him.

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  • Deut 22:1-4 : 1 If you see your brother's ox or sheep wandering off, do not ignore it. Be sure to return it to your brother. 2 If your brother is not nearby or you do not know who he is, take the animal to your house and keep it with you until your brother comes looking for it. Then, you must return it to him. 3 Do the same with his donkey, his garment, or any lost item that belongs to your brother, which you find. Do not ignore it; you must return it. 4 If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him lift it back up.
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good, both for one another and for everyone.
  • Prov 25:21 : 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
  • Matt 5:44 : 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
  • Luke 6:27-28 : 27 But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you. 28 Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
  • Rom 12:17-21 : 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' says the Lord. 20 If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. 21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  • Job 31:29-30 : 29 If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him— 30 I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. 18 Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

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  • Exod 23:5-6
    2 verses
    87%

    5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you collapsing under its load, and you would refrain from helping, you must surely help with it.

    6Do not deny justice to your poor among you in their lawsuit.

  • Deut 22:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1If you see your brother's ox or sheep wandering off, do not ignore it. Be sure to return it to your brother.

    2If your brother is not nearby or you do not know who he is, take the animal to your house and keep it with you until your brother comes looking for it. Then, you must return it to him.

    3Do the same with his donkey, his garment, or any lost item that belongs to your brother, which you find. Do not ignore it; you must return it.

    4If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him lift it back up.

  • Exod 22:7-14
    8 verses
    79%

    7If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must present himself before God to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.

    8In all cases of dishonest dealings, whether involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything lost that someone claims to be theirs, both parties must present their cases before God. The one whom God condemns must pay back double to the other.

    9If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to take care of, and it dies, is injured, or is driven away while no one is watching,

    10the issue between them will be settled by an oath before the Lord that the neighbor has not taken the other’s property. The owner must accept this, and no restitution is required.

    11But if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, restitution must be made to the owner.

    12If it was attacked and torn apart by a wild animal, the neighbor must provide evidence of this, but does not need to pay restitution for the torn animal.

    13If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies when its owner is not present, he must make restitution.

    14If the owner is with the animal, the borrower does not need to pay. If it was rented, the payment covers the loss.

  • Exod 22:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4If a man lets his animal graze in another's field or vineyard, and it feeds there, he must repay with the best of his own field or vineyard.

    5If a fire breaks out and catches on thorn bushes so that a stack of grain, standing grain, or a field is destroyed, the one who started the fire must make full compensation.

  • Deut 28:31
    75%

    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • Exod 22:1
    73%

    1If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck and killed, there is no bloodguilt for his death.

  • Exod 21:32-36
    5 verses
    73%

    32If the ox gores a male or female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver to the master of the servant, and the ox must be stoned.

    33If a man opens a pit or if he digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

    34the owner of the pit must pay compensation; he must pay the owner of the animal, and the dead animal will become his.

    35If one man’s ox injures another’s ox so that it dies, they are to sell the live ox and divide the money, and they must also divide the dead animal.

    36However, if it was known that the ox was prone to goring in the past and its owner did not keep it confined, he must pay compensation—an ox for an ox—and the dead animal will be his.

  • Deut 22:10
    73%

    10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

  • Exod 23:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11But during the seventh year, you are to let it rest and leave it unplowed, so that the poor among your people may eat, and whatever they leave, the wild animals may eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

    12For six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Prov 25:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.

    22By doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.

  • Deut 25:4
    71%

    4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

  • Num 22:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32The angel of the LORD asked him, 'Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? I have come here to oppose you because your path is a reckless one before me.'

    33The donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If it had not turned away, I would certainly have killed you by now, but I would have spared it.'

  • Exod 34:20
    69%

    20You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

  • Lev 25:14
    69%

    14If you sell land to your neighbor or buy land from your neighbor, do not take advantage of one another.

  • Exod 23:3
    69%

    3Do not show partiality to a poor person in his lawsuit.

  • Prov 24:17
    68%

    17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.

  • Num 22:23
    68%

    23When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam struck the donkey to make it turn back onto the road.

  • Rom 12:20
    68%

    20If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.

  • Job 24:3
    68%

    3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

  • Prov 24:29
    68%

    29Do not say, 'I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his deeds.'

  • Lev 6:4
    68%

    4Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

  • Lev 24:18
    68%

    18Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    68%

    16He will take your male and female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and use them for his own work.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    68%

    28He went and found the man's body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.

  • Deut 24:14
    67%

    14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

  • Matt 5:42-43
    2 verses
    67%

    42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

    43You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

  • Deut 23:15
    67%

    15For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies into your hands. Your camp must be holy so that He will not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

  • Exod 22:30
    67%

    30You are to be holy to me. Do not eat meat torn by wild animals in the field; throw it to the dogs.

  • Isa 30:24
    67%

    24The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.