Deuteronomy 22:2

_AND IF THY BROTHER BE NOT NIGH UNTO THEE, OR IF THOU KNOW HIM NOT, THEN THOU SHALT BRING IT UNTO THINE OWN HOUSE, AND IT SHALL BE WITH THEE UNTIL THY BROTHER SEEK AFTER IT, AND THOU SHALT RESTORE IT TO HIM AGAIN._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-4 If we duly regard the golden rule of "doing to others as we would they should do unto us," many particular precepts might be omitted. We can have no property in any thing that we find. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and to be ready to do all good offices to all men. We know not how soon we may have occasion for help....

EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES. CONFUSIONS TO BE AVOIDED. FRINGES TO BE MADE ON VESTMENTS. PUNISHMENT OF WIFE-SLANDER, ADULTERY, RAPE, FORNICATION, INCEST....

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 t...

18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13) 3. Sins of adultery (Deuteronomy 22:22) Laws on the second table are now more fully expounded by Moses. The love to the neighbor is to be expressed by guarding and preserving that which is his property. The strayed and fallen animal belonging to another had to be helped. To leave them in that condition would have been a violation of the law “love thy neighbor as thyself” as well as an act of inhumanity. Another interesting law is the one which forbids woma

See Exodus 23:4 f.* (JE) and Leviticus 6:1 * (P), and _cf._ CH. §§ 9- 13. Deuteronomy 22:5. Peculiar to Dt. In one of the rites of Canaanite, Phœ nician, and Syrian heathenism the sexes changed dresses (see references in Driver). Deuteronomy 22:6_ f_. Respect for parenthood, so prominent in Dt. (Deuteronomy 21:18, _cf. Deuteronomy 5:16_) is the probable source of this law (peculiar to Dt.)....

Of Restoring Lost Property. No Israelite shall see a brother's ox or sheep go astray without returning it, or caring for it till it is claimed, and so with an ass or garment or anything lost; D's expansion of a law by E, Exodus 23:4 f., which is (remarkably) of an _enemy's_property. As is evident from the parallel phrase, _him that hateth thee_, in E's next law, this is not a foreign, but a private, enemy. Therefore D's substitution of the term _brother_renders his law not narrower (so Marti and others), but wider, than E's. P, Leviticus 6:1-7, gives details for the treatment of a man who has not restored lost property found by him. Ḫammurabi has four laws, §§ 9 12, on cases in which the finder has sold the lost property of another. For the Arabs see Doughty _Ar. Des._i. 345 and Musil,...

j. LIFE IN THE NEW LAND: VARIOUS LAWS (Deuteronomy 22:1-12) (1) LOST POSSESSIONS (Deuteronomy 22:1-4) Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him, 3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother'S, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself, 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him t

22:2 bring (b-18) Lit. 'gather it in the midst of the house.'...

LAWS REGARDING LOST PROPERTY, DISTINCTION OF SEX IN APPAREL, AND CHASTITY 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note....