9 Bible Verses about Animals Going Astray

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Exodus 23:4

If you meet your enemy's ox or his ass going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

Deuteronomy 22:1-3

You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it into your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and you shall give it back to him again. In the same way you shall do with his ass. And so shall you do with his clothing. And with any lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do the same. You may not hide yourself.

Numbers 22:23

And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the way, and His sword drawn in His hand. And the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field. And Balaam struck the ass, to turn her into the way.

Proverbs 27:8

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

Matthew 18:12-13

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, does he not leave the ninety and nine and go into the mountains and seek the straying one? And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant; for I do not forget Your Commandments.

Matthew 18:13

And if it happens that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety and nine which did not stray.

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