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Deuteronomychapter 22

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Deuteronomy 22— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Deuteronomy 22. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

The reading

Weekly portion 49 of 54

כִּי־תֵצֵא Ki Teitzei, Deuteronomy 21:10 to 25:19

Read with it: Isaiah 54:1 to 54:10.

The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

3 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

Bring your brother's ox back to him1

Deuteronomy 22:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808תִרְאֶה֩tirehyou will seeH7200אֶת־ʾet-<obj.>H853שׁ֨וֹרshor[the] ox ofH7794אָחִ֜יךָʾachikhacountryman yourH251א֤וֹʾoorH176אֶת־ʾet-<obj.>H853שֵׂיוֹ֙seyosheep hisH7716נִדָּחִ֔יםnidachimgoing astrayH5080וְהִתְעַלַּמְתָּ֖vehitalamtaand you will hide yourselfH5956מֵהֶ֑םmehemfrom <the> themהָשֵׁ֥בhashevcertainly <to return>H7725תְּשִׁיבֵ֖םteshivemyou will return themH7725לְאָחִֽיךָ׃leachikhato countryman yourH251

Ramban on Deuteronomy 22:1

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
This is a commandment explanatory of what He stated in the Torah, If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 122 Exodus:4.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

Onkelos Deuteronomy 22:1

Targum
You may not observe your brother’s ox or his sheep lost and conceal yourself from them; you must surely return them to your brother.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

Deuteronomy 22:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808תַחֲרֹ֥שׁtacharoshyou will plowH2790בְּשׁוֹר־beshor-with an oxH7794וּבַחֲמֹ֖רuvachamorand with a donkeyH2543יַחְדָּֽו׃ סyachdavtogetherH3162

Ramban on Deuteronomy 22:10

RambanSpain, 1194–1270· Commentary
He states, Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. 187 Verse. The same law applies to all diverse species of animals. It is an explanatory commandment of the prohibitions, Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind, 182 Leviticus:19.

Read it in full at Sefaria · Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976

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