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If your brother isn`t near to you, or if you don`t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
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The Golden Rule in Practice
Commentators explain that this law is a practical application of the broader biblical commands to 'love your neighbor as yourself' and 'do to others as you would have them do unto you.' It moves beyond a simple prohibition of theft to a positive command to be actively neighborly and helpful to others in the community.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 22:1–4. LOST PROPERTY.
Go astray. —Literally, being driven away, as by wi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if your brother be not nigh unto you Does not live in the same neighbourhood, but at some considerable distance;…
Presbyterian
If we properly observe the golden rule of doing to others as we would they should do unto us, many specific precepts might be omitted. We …
