A free printable Bible study for your group.

Want everyone to read Deuteronomy 22 during the week, answer privately, and see every answer appear together when you meet? That's Favor. Start your free week or see the Deuteronomy 22 Bible study.

Bible study · Deuteronomy 22:1-30

Deuteronomy 22: You may not hide yourself

Read Deuteronomy 22:1-30 before you meet.

In a few lines

Three times in four verses the law says you may not "hide yourself" from a brother's stray animal, lost thing or fallen donkey (22:1-4), as Exodus had said of an enemy's (Exodus 23:4-5); and letting a mother bird go carries the two promises of "Honor your father and your mother" (22:7; 5:16).

The verse to carry

“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.”

Deuteronomy 22:4

To talk about

  1. 1. "You may not hide yourself" (22:3). When have you seen a problem that wasn't yours and looked the other way? What made it easy to hide?

  2. 2. A lost animal was to stay with you "until your brother comes looking for it" (22:2), even if you didn't know him. Looking after what belongs to someone else costs time and space. Who could you do that for this week?

  3. 3. The builder was to make a railing "so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there" (22:8). Where in your home, work or group could you think ahead for someone who might get hurt?

Prayer requests