Exodus 23:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying under its burden and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

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  • Deut 22:4 : 4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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  • Exod 23:3-4
    2 verses
    87%

    3Nor shall you show favoritism to a poor man in his dispute.

    4If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering away, you shall surely return it to him.

  • Deut 22:1-4
    4 verses
    84%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother.

    2And 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 after it, and you shall restore it to him again.

    3In like manner you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his clothing; and with any lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, you shall do likewise; you may not hide yourself.

    4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

  • Exod 22:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9For every kind of trespass, whether it is for ox, donkey, sheep, clothing, or any lost thing that another claims to be his, both parties shall come before the judges; and he whom the judges convict shall pay double to his neighbor.

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, ox, sheep, or any animal to keep and it dies, is injured, or is driven away, with no one seeing it,

    11then an oath of the LORD shall be between them both that he has not put his hand upon his neighbor's goods; and the owner shall accept this, and he shall not make restitution.

  • Exod 23:6
    75%

    6You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his dispute.

  • Deut 22:10
    73%

    10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

  • Num 22:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    32And the angel of the LORD said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Look, I went out to withstand you, because your way is perverse before me:

    33And the donkey saw me, and turned away from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now I would have slain you, and saved her alive.

  • Exod 23:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

    12Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Deut 28:31
    71%

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

  • Prov 25:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

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

    22For you will heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD will reward you.

  • Prov 25:17
    70%

    17Withdraw your foot from your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and so hate you.

  • Num 22:23
    70%

    23And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the way.

  • Deut 25:4
    69%

    4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

  • Judg 5:10
    69%

    10Speak, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

  • Num 22:27
    69%

    27And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with a staff.

  • Matt 5:42-43
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Exod 21:33
    69%

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

  • Exod 22:25
    69%

    25If you lend money to any of my people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him interest.

  • Lev 25:35
    69%

    35And if your brother becomes poor, and falls into decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he is a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

  • 1 Kgs 13:27
    69%

    27And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. And they saddled it.

  • Num 22:25
    68%

    25And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.

  • Deut 15:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9Beware that there is not a wicked thought in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,' and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries to the LORD against you, and it be sin to you.

    10You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put your hand to.

  • Luke 14:5
    68%

    5And answered them, saying, Which of you, having a donkey or an ox fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?

  • Lev 19:17
    68%

    17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

  • Num 22:30
    68%

    30And the donkey said to Balaam, Am I not your donkey, upon which you have ridden ever since I became yours until this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you? And he said, No.

  • Prov 3:30
    68%

    30Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

  • Rom 12:20
    68%

    20Therefore if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink: for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.

  • Deut 24:14
    68%

    14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of the strangers that are in your land within your gates:

  • Prov 24:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

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

    18Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Lev 25:14
    68%

    14And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another:

  • Prov 3:27-28
    2 verses
    68%

    27Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

    28Do not say to your neighbor, 'Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give,' when you have it with you.

  • Prov 24:11
    68%

    11If you hold back from rescuing those taken away to death, and those ready to be slain;

  • Ps 10:14
    68%

    14You have seen it; for You behold mischief and spite, to repay it with Your hand; the poor commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

  • Isa 30:6
    68%

    6The burden of the beasts of the south: through a land of trouble and anguish, from which come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

  • Deut 15:7
    67%

    7If there is among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any of your gates in your land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart nor shut your hand from your poor brother.

  • Prov 12:10
    67%

    10A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  • Isa 32:20
    67%

    20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

  • Exod 21:36
    67%

    36Or if it is known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall be his own.