Exodus 23:4
“If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.
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- Deut 22:1-4 : 1 Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor. 2 If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him. 3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved. 4 When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.
- 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.
- Prov 25:21 : 21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
- Matt 5:44 : 44 But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,
- Luke 6:27-28 : 27 “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.
- Rom 12:17-21 : 17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people. 18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all people. 19 Do not avenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God’s wrath, for it is written,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. 20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping 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 over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him– 30 I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–
- Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice, 18 lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
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- Exod 23:5-62 verses87%
5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
6 “You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
- Deut 22:1-44 verses83%
1 Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.
2 If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.
3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.
4 When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.
- Exod 22:7-148 verses79%
7 “If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.
8 If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.
9 In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.
10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,
11 then there will be an oath to the LORD between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.
12 But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.
13 If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.
14 “If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.
- Exod 22:4-52 verses76%
4 If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.
5 “If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard, and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
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31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
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1 Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.
- Exod 21:32-365 verses73%
32 If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.
33 “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,
34 the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.
35 If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.
36 Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.
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10 You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.
- Exod 23:11-122 verses73%
11 But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and the resident foreigner may refresh themselves.
- Prov 25:21-222 verses71%
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
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4 You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
- Num 22:32-332 verses70%
32 The angel of the LORD said to him,“Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”
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20 Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.“No one will appear before me empty-handed.
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14 If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
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3 and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.
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17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
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23 And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, so the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. But Balaam beat the donkey, to make her turn back to the road.
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20 Rather, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.
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3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
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29 Do not say,“I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”
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4 when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,
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18 One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.
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16 He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
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23 Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,
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28 He went and found the body lying in the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside it; the lion had neither eaten the body nor attacked the donkey.
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14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.
- Matt 5:42-432 verses67%
42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.
43 Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’
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15 Purity in the Treatment of the Nonprivileged You must not return an escaped slave to his master when he has run away to you.
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30 You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.
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24 The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.