You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 22 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Jesus' rescue argument — 'which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn't immediately pull him out on a Sabbath?' — draws on the Torah's humane-rescue command not to leave a brother's ox or donkey fallen by the way without lifting it up. The qal-wahomer (how much more a person) presupposes this animal-rescue obligation as available scriptural premise; high coherence with Jesus' wider Sabbath-mercy disputes (Luke 13:15).
High confidence'You shall not see your brother's ox or sheep fallen by the way and hide yourself; you shall help him lift them up.' The rescue-of-fallen-animal obligation underlies Jesus' a fortiori: if you lift a sheep from a pit, how much more do good for a man.
Medium confidence