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Exodus 23:4

King James Version (KJV)

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If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Exodus 23:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Exodus 23:4

Theological / Devotional

Thine enemy’s ox. This refers to a private enemy, not to a public one as in Deut. 23:3–6. It anticipates the true spirit of Christianity as laid down by Christ in His rebuke of the rabbinical distortions of the Mosaic law (Matt. 23:4).

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