Exodus 23:4

World English Bible (2000)

"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 22:1-4 : 1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother. 2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him. 3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself. 4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
  • 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, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
  • Luke 6:27-28 : 27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, 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 Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. 18 If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men. 19 Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord." 20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head." 21 Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  • Job 31:29-30 : 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; 30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:5-6
    2 verses
    87%

    5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

    6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

  • Deut 22:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

    2 If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

    3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his garment; and so you shall do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

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

  • Exod 22:7-14
    8 verses
    79%

    7 "If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

    8 If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

    9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

    10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

    11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

    13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

    14 "If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Exod 22:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

    5 "If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

  • Deut 28:31
    75%

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

  • Exod 22:1
    73%

    1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

  • Exod 21:32-36
    5 verses
    73%

    32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

    33 "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

    34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

    35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Deut 22:10
    73%

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

  • Exod 23:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

    12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

  • Prov 25:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

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

    22 for you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you.

  • Deut 25:4
    71%

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

  • Num 22:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32 The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse before me:

    33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times. Unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I would have killed you, and saved her alive."

  • Exod 34:20
    69%

    20 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

  • Lev 25:14
    69%

    14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

  • Exod 23:3
    69%

    3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.

  • Prov 24:17
    68%

    17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown;

  • Num 22:23
    68%

    23 The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh 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.

  • Rom 12:20
    68%

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

  • Job 24:3
    68%

    3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

  • Prov 24:29
    68%

    29 Don't say, "I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."

  • Lev 6:4
    68%

    4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

  • Lev 24:18
    68%

    18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  • 1 Sam 8:16
    68%

    16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

  • Prov 27:23
    68%

    23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

  • 1 Kgs 13:28
    68%

    28 He went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion standing by the body. The lion had not eaten the body, nor mauled the donkey.

  • Deut 24:14
    67%

    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

  • Matt 5:42-43
    2 verses
    67%

    42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

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

  • Deut 23:15
    67%

    15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant who is escaped from his master to you:

  • Exod 22:30
    67%

    30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

  • Isa 30:24
    67%

    24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.