OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 22:1

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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.

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Verse 1. Pass by. Hebrew “hide thyself,” pretending not to see it.—Brother. Any fellow creature. Exodus 23:4. Lu. 10:30. Calmet.—“We are very inhuman, not to shew as much concern for a man as the Jews do for a beast of burden.” Saint John Chrysostom ser. 13. D.

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