DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 22 Laws about stray cattle, Deuteronomy 22:1-3. About thy neighbor's ox fallen in the way, Deuteronomy 22:4. Woman's wearing of apparel distinct from man s, Deuteronomy 22:5. Of birds caught, Deuteronomy 22:6,7. Of battlements for houses, Deuteronomy 22:8. Of divers seeds sown, Deuteronomy 22:9. Of ploughing with an ox and ass, Deuteronomy 22:10. Of garments of divers colours, Deuteronomy 22:11. Of fringes upon the four quarters of a garment, Deuteronomy 22:12. The punishment of him that slandereth his wife. Deuteronomy 22:13-19. Her punishment if the scandal be true, Deuteronomy 22:20,21. The punishment of adultery, Deuteronomy 22:22-24; of rape, Deuteronomy 22:25-27; of fornication, Deuteronomy 22:28,29. Against incest, Deuteronomy 22:30. Thy brother; so called by communion not of religion, but of nature, as having one Father, even God, Zechariah 2:10; as appears,
1. Because the same law is given about their enemy's ox, &c., Exodus 23:4.
2. Because else the obligation of this law had been uncertain, seeing men could not ordinarily tell whether the straying ox or sheep belonged to a Jew or to a stranger.
3. Because this was a duty of common justice and charity, which the law of nature taught even heathens, and it is absurd to think that the law of God delivered to the Jews should have less charity in it than the law of nature given to the Gentiles. Hide thyself from them, i.e. dissemble or pretend that thou dost not seen them; or neglect or pass them by as if thou hadst not seen them.