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Deuteronomy 22:3

in Deuteronomy 22

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.

KJV

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 22

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Thou mayest not hide thyself - Thou shalt not keep out of the way of affording help, nor pretend thou didst not see occasion to render thy neighbor any service. The priest and the Levite, when they saw the wounded man, passed by on the other side of the way, Luk 10:31, Luk 10:32. This was a notorious breach of the merciful law mentioned above.

This site's exposition

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying

on Deuteronomy 22:1-4

The phrase “you must not ignore it” runs through the rule on lost property. Exodus 23:4-5 gave the same duty about an enemy's ox and donkey. Here the animal belongs to a brother, so the duty covers both ends of that range.

This site's exposition

anything your brother has lost

The rule reaches from the ox to anything a brother lost. Henry reports a Jewish practice: the one who found it had the loss cried in public three or four times.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Gregory of Neocaesarea

CANONICAL EPISTLE 4 · Written before 270.

proposed

Let no one deceive himself, nor put forward the pretext of having found such property. For it is not lawful, even for a man who has found anything, to aggrandize himself by it. For Deuteronomy says: "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his …

A commentator

Clement of Alexandria

The Stromata Book 2 · Written before 215.

proposed

Scripture teaches us by means of natural fellowship to treat the object found as a trust and not to hold hatred of an enemy.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Jews say, "He that found the lost goods was to give public notice of them by the common crier three or four times," according to the usage with us; if the owner could not be found, he that found the goods might convert them to his own use; but (say some learned writers in this case) he would do very well to give the value of the goods to the poor.
In like manner shall thou do with his ass,....

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכֵ֧ןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֣הyou will do

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • לַחֲמֹר֗וֹfor donkey his

    lachamoroH2543 →96 times

  • וְכֵ֣ןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂה֮you will do

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • לְשִׂמְלָתוֹ֒for clothing his

    lesimlatoH8071 →29 times

  • וְכֵ֣ןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֜הyou will do

    taasehH6213 →2628 times

  • לְכָל־for every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲבֵדַ֥ת<the> thing lost of

    ʾavedatH9 →

  • אָחִ֛יךָcountryman your

    ʾachikhaH251 →630 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • תֹּאבַ֥דit will be lost

    tovadH6 →184 times

  • מִמֶּ֖נּוּfrom him

    mimenuH4480 →1188 times

  • וּמְצָאתָ֑הּand you will find it

    umetzatahH4672 →455 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • תוּכַ֖לyou will be able

    tukhalH3201 →194 times

  • לְהִתְעַלֵּֽם׃ סto hide yourself

    lehitalemH5956 →28 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata Book 2; Gregory of Neocaesarea, CANONICAL EPISTLE 4; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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