申命记 22:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

如果你的兄弟離你很遠，或是你不認識他，你就要把牠牽到你家中，留在你那裡，等到你的兄弟來尋找牠，你就還給他。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 弟 兄 若 离 你 远 ， 或 是 你 不 认 识 他 ， 就 要 牵 到 你 家 去 ， 留 在 你 那 里 ， 等 你 弟 兄 来 寻 找 就 还 给 他 。

Contextual Overview

¹ If you see your fellow Israelite's ox or sheep wandering away, don't ignore it. Take it back to its owner. ² If the owner does not live close to you, or if you do not know who the owner is, take the animal home with you. Keep it until the owner comes looking for it; then give it back. ³ Do the same thing if you find a donkey or coat or anything someone lost. Don't just ignore it. ⁴ If you see your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fallen on the road, don't ignore it. Help the owner get it up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt restore: Matthew 7:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:6

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 8:6 - Restore all

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.

Genesis 22:9
and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.

Genesis 22:10
Then Abraham took his knife and was about to kill his son.

Genesis 22:12
The angel said, "Don't kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me."

Genesis 22:16
and said, "The Lord says, ‘Because you did not keep back your son, your only son, from me, I make you this promise by my own name:

Judges 11:31
I will give you as a burnt offering the first thing that comes out of my house to meet me when I return from the victory. It will be the Lord 's."

Judges 11:39
After two months she returned to her father, and Jephthah did to her what he had promised. Jephthah's daughter never had a husband. From this came a custom in Israel that

2 Kings 3:27
Then the king of Moab took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. So there was great anger against the Israelites, who left and went back to their own land.

2 Chronicles 3:1
Then Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. This was where the Lord had appeared to David, Solomon's father. Solomon built the Temple on the place David had prepared on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee,.... Does not live in the same neighbourhood, but at some considerable distance; so that he cannot soon and easily be informed of his cattle, or they be sent to him:

or if thou know him not; the owner of them, what is his name, or where he lives:

then thou shall bring it into thine house; not into his dwelling house, but some out house, barn, or stable:

and it shall be with thee; remain in his custody, and be taken care of by him; and, as the Targum of Jonathan says, "be fed and nourished by him"; for, according to the Jewish canon s, whatsoever could work and eat, that should work and eat, and whatsoever did not work and eat was to be sold; for which there was a set time, as the commentators say t, for large cattle, as oxen, twelve months; for lesser cattle, as sheep, goats, c. three months, here it is fixed,

until thy brother seek after it though in the mean while the finder was to make use of means, whereby the owner might be informed of it; for whatsoever was lost, in which were marks and signs by which inquiries might be made, were to be proclaimed u; (and it is asked) how long a man was obliged to proclaim? until it was known to his neighbours; same say (he must proclaim it) at three feasts, and seven days after the last feast, so that he may go home three days, and return three days, and proclaim one day; if (the owner) tells what is lost, but does not tell the marks or signs, he may not give it him; and a deceiver, though he tells the signs, he may not give it him, as it is said, "until thy brother seek after it"; until thou inquirest of thy brother whether he is a deceiver or not: and elsewhere it is said w, formerly if a man lost anything, and gave the signs or marks of it, he took it; but after deceivers increased, it was ordered to be said to him, bring witnesses that thou art not a deceiver, and take it; and in the same place it is observed, that there was at Jerusalem a stone, called Eben Toim, "the stone of strays", and whoever had lost or found anything repaired thither, and gave the signs and marks of it, and took it:

and thou shalt restore it to him again; he having made it fully to appear to be his, and having defrayed all expenses in advertising and keeping it; but if no owner appear to claim it, or not to satisfaction, the finder was to keep it as his own; but otherwise he was by all means to restore it, or, as in Deuteronomy 23:1 "in restoring thou shalt restore them" x, that is, certainly restore them; and continually wherever it so happens: the Jewish canon is y,

"if he restores it, and afterwards it strays away, and he restores it again and it strays away, even though four or five times, he is bound to restore it; as it is said, "in restoring thou shalt restore them"; Maimonides says z, that even an hundred times he is bound to restore them.''

s Misn. Bava Metzia, c. 2. sect. 7. t Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. u Misn. ib. sect. 5, 6, 7. w T. Bab. Bava Metzia, fol. 28. 2. x השב תשיבם "reducendo reduces eos", Pagninus, Montanus. y Misn. ut supra, (s) sect. 9. z Hilchot Gazelah ve abadah, c. 11. sect. 14.