Exodus 23:5
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.
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- Deut 22:4 : 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.
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- Exod 23:3-42 verses87%
3and you must not show partiality to a poor man in his lawsuit.
4“If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.
- Deut 22:1-44 verses84%
1Laws 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.
2If 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.
3You 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.
4When 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 22:9-113 verses76%
9In 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.
10If 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,
11then 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.
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6“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits.
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10You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.
- Num 22:32-332 verses72%
32The 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.
33The 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.”
- Exod 23:11-122 verses71%
11But 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.
12For 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.
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31Your 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.
- Prov 25:21-222 verses70%
21If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,
22for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
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17Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.
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23And 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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4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.
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10You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!
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27When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.
- Matt 5:42-432 verses69%
42Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you.
43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’
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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,
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25“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.
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35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.
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27He told his sons,“Saddle my donkey.” So they saddled it.
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25And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed herself into the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he beat her again.
- Deut 15:9-102 verses68%
9Be careful lest you entertain the wicked thought that the seventh year, the year of cancellation of debts, has almost arrived, and your attitude be wrong toward your impoverished fellow Israelite and you do not lend him anything; he will cry out to the LORD against you and you will be regarded as having sinned.
10You must by all means lend to him and not be upset by doing it, for because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you attempt.
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5Then he said to them,“Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”
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17You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.
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30The donkey said to Balaam,“Am I not your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?” And he said,“No.”
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30Do not accuse anyone without legitimate cause, if he has not treated you wrongly.
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20Rather, 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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14You 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.
- Prov 24:17-182 verses68%
17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
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14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.
- Prov 3:27-282 verses68%
27Wisdom Demonstrated in Relationships with People Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.
28Do not say to your neighbor,“Go! Return tomorrow and I will give it,” when you have it with you at the time.
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11Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
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14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.
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6This is an oracle about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, by snakes and darting adders, they transport their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them.
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7The Spirit of Liberality If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the LORD your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.
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10A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.
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20you will be blessed, you who plant seed by all the banks of the streams, you who let your ox and donkey graze.
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36Or 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.