¹ If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

⁴ If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

⁵ If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

³ Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

⁴ If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

²⁵ Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

¹⁹ My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,

²⁰ Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

⁵ And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.

⁶ And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.

³¹ And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

³² And in the same way, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, went by on the other side.

¹² What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?

¹³ And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.

²⁴ But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

⁶ But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

¹⁶ I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

⁴ You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

⁷ Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

¹⁷ And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor will never be in need, but great curses will be on him who gives no attention to them.

¹¹ Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

⁴ And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,