Êxodo 23:4

4 “Se você encontrar perdido o boi ou o jumento que pertence ao seu inimigo, leve-o de volta a ele.

Êxodo 23:4 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 23:4

If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray
Or any other beast, as the Samaritan version adds; for these are only mentioned for instances, as being more common, and creatures subject to go astray; now when such as these are met going astray, so as to be in danger of being lost to the owner, though he is an enemy; or as the Targum of Jonathan,

``whom thou hatest because of a sin, which thou alone knowest in him;''

yet this was not so far to prejudice the finder of his beasts against him, as to be careless about them, to suffer them to go on without acquainting him with them, or returning them to him, as follows:

thou shalt surely bring it back to him again;
whether it be an ox, or an ass, or any other beast, the law is very strong and binding upon the finder to return it to his neighbour, though an enemy, and bring it either to his field or to his farm.

Êxodo 23:4 In-Context

2 “Não acompanhe a maioria para fazer o mal. Ao testemunhar num processo, não perverta a justiça para apoiar a maioria,

3 nem para favorecer o pobre num processo.

4 “Se você encontrar perdido o boi ou o jumento que pertence ao seu inimigo, leve-o de volta a ele.

5 Se você vir o jumento de alguém que o odeia caído sob o peso de sua carga, não o abandone, procure ajudá-lo.

6 “Não perverta o direito dos pobres em seus processos.