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If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him Verse ConceptsDuties To EnemiesAnimals Going Astrayfriendliness

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother. Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made. Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingRules About Killing Animalsredeemed

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering. Verse ConceptsDonkeysLambsRansomRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingEmpty HandedRules About Killing Animals

If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him. Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together. Verse ConceptsDonkeysPloughingCaring For AnimalsTilling The SoilMixing MaterialsNetworking

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCovenant breakersdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProperty, HousesLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage ControlledEighth Commandment

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire. Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toResponsibility, For God's WorldAnimal RightsHeavy BurdensPeople HelpingLoving Your Enemies

For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders? Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfThreshingMuzzlingAnimals, God's Care OfOxenSealing ThingsBinding As AnimalsWritten In The Lawthe Law of mosesPerspectivemuscles


If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him Verse ConceptsDuties To EnemiesAnimals Going Astrayfriendliness

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother. If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him.

Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofAgriculture, RestrictionsdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage Controlled

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCovenant breakersdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProperty, HousesLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage ControlledEighth Commandment

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you. Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together. Verse ConceptsDonkeysPloughingCaring For AnimalsTilling The SoilMixing MaterialsNetworking

If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again. Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentResponsibility, For God's WorldRoadsAnimals Falling

And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one. But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible. But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death. If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed. read more.
If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule. If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value. If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it: If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it. read more.
But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner. But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.

Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food. Verse ConceptsSheepSanitation, FoodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value. Verse ConceptsRestitutionDouble PenaltyLiving ThingsRules About Booty

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJoy, Of IsraelLoving ForeignersEating Drinking And Rejoicing

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. read more.
Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering, Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The LawStrangers in israel

Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering; Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do. Verse ConceptsSmellsAromasAltarsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The LawRefreshing God

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestIndustryStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And WomenSabbaths InstitutedStrangers in israel

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you. Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women


Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtCruelty, God's attitude toForeignersCovenant breakersethics, socialAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstHospitality, A Duty Of God's PeopleOppression, Nature OfOutsidersSensitivitySympathyAliens, Believers DutyExperimental KnowledgeAccepting OthersOppressing ForeignersTroubling Groups Of PeopleImmigrantsAliens

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him; Verse ConceptsForeignersLaw, OtAliens, Believers DutySojourningStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him. Verse ConceptsCourtsJudgesMagistratesJudging RightlyForeigners Included In The Law

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: Verse ConceptsForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansPledgesWidowsWidows, Should Not BeAliens, Believers DutyOppressing ForeignersInstruction About ClothesLaws About PledgesAliens

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsForeignersLaw, OtLove, For One AnotherSympathyAliens, Believers DutyBrotherly LoveLoving ForeignersLove Your Neighbour!Strangers in israelImmigrantsAliens


Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law; Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel. And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given. And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law; read more.
Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.

And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family; After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it. For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves. Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk. Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage. Verse ConceptsBankruptcyForeignersInterestStrangersLaws Restricting Foreigners

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is to take of it: But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. Verse ConceptsLiberalityethics, socialGenerosity, HumanGenerosity, Used TowardsLove To Others Shown InStrangersPoor PeopleLoving Foreigners

You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawThe Lord Is GodStrangers in israelAliens

And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyStrangersProfaning God's NameForeigners Included In The LawInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land; Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight. Verse ConceptsManslaughterStrangersAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalAliens

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardDoing Things Twice

That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines. Verse ConceptsLaws About AgricultureReaping What You Sow

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees. Verse Conceptsethics, socialLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForVineyardOrchardsUnusedAgricultureRestFarming

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut. Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearAgricultureRestFarmingoverworking

When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

Or if any man has made a vine-garden without taking the first-fruits of it, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another may not be the first to make use of the fruit. Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase. Verse ConceptsCropsSeedSowing And ReapingVineyardMixing MaterialsPlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedsnegativitysowing

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God. Verse ConceptsIncreasing FruitThe Lord Is GodFifthFood Permitted

And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord. Verse ConceptsPraise To God Is Fitting

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food. Verse ConceptsForeskinsCultivationThree YearsEating Forbidden FoodFirst fruits

If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsCarelessnessShepherds, As OccupationsVineyardAnimals Eating

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls: Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialAlmsgivingAltruismCharityThree YearsEvery Three YearsTithes And Offeringfriendliness

When you have taken out a tenth from the tenth of all your produce in the third year, which is the year when this has to be done, give it to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and the child without a father, and the widow, so that they may have food in your towns and be full; And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them:

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you. Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansResponsibility, For God's WorldWidowsAliens, Believers DutyStrangersJusticeOppressing ForeignersAmenNo Justice


If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do. Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: Verse ConceptsForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansPledgesWidowsWidows, Should Not BeAliens, Believers DutyOppressing ForeignersInstruction About ClothesLaws About PledgesAliens

When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so. Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people. Verse ConceptsProfanityDivorceMarriage Controlledvirginity

But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTUnfaithfulness, To PeopleDivorce

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