Verse 4
Exodus 23:4
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
4
If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י תִפְגַּ֞ע שׁ֧וֹר אֹֽיִבְ/ךָ֛ א֥וֹ חֲמֹר֖/וֹ תֹּעֶ֑ה הָשֵׁ֥ב תְּשִׁיבֶ֖/נּוּ לֽ/וֹ
English Translation
If you encounter a stray ox or donkey of your brother, you shall surely return it to him.
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Chapter 23 Context
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Thou shalt not receive the voice of a lie: neither shalt thou join thy hand to bear false witness fo...
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Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion...
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Neither shalt thou favour a poor man in judgment.
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If thou meet thy enemy's ox or ass going astray, bring it back to him.
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If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but s...
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6
Thou shalt not go aside in the poor man's judgment.
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7
Thou shalt fly lying. The innocent and just person thou shalt not put to death: because I abhor the...
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8
Neither shalt thou take bribes, which even blind the wise, and pervert the words of the just.
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9
Thou shalt not molest a stranger, for you know the hearts of strangers: for you also were strangers...
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10
Six years thou shalt sow thy ground, and shalt gather the corn thereof.
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11
But the seventh year thou shalt let it alone, and suffer it to rest, that the poor of thy people may...
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12
Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and th...
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13
Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neithe...
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14
Three times every year you shall celebrate feasts to me.
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15
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I comm...
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16
And the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits of thy work, whatsoever thou hast sown in the field....
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17
Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God (Elohim).
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18
Thou shalt not sacrifice the blood of my victim upon leaven, neither shall the fat of my solemnity r...
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19
Thou shalt carry the firstfruits of the corn of thy ground to the house of the Lord thy God (Elohim)...
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20
Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee...
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21
Take notice of him, and hear his voice, and do not think him one to be contemned: for he will not fo...
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22
But if thou wilt hear his voice, and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and wil...
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23
And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and...
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24
Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy th...
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25
And you shall serve the Lord your God (Elohim), that I may bless your bread and your waters, and may...
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There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.
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I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come: and will t...
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28
Sending out hornets before, that shall drive away the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, b...
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I will not cast them out from thy face in one year: lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and...
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By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost posses...
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And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the...
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Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
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Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps thy make thee sin against me, if thou serve their god:...
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