“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 22 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.