Exodus 23:5

23:5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, 1  but be sure to help 2  him with it. 3 

Exodus 30:33

30:33 Whoever makes perfume like it and whoever puts any of it on someone not a priest 4  will be cut off 5  from his people.’”

1 tn The line reads “you will cease to forsake him” – refrain from leaving your enemy without help.

2 tn The law is emphatic here as well, using the infinitive absolute and the imperfect of instruction (or possibly obligation). There is also a wordplay here: two words עָזַב (’azav) are used, one meaning “forsake” and the other possibly meaning “arrange” based on Arabic and Ugaritic evidence (see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 297-98).

3 sn See H. B. Huffmon, “Exodus 23:4-5: A Comparative Study,” A Light Unto My Path, 271-78.

4 tn Heb “a stranger,” meaning someone not ordained a priest.

5 sn The rabbinic interpretation of this is that it is a penalty imposed by heaven, that the life will be cut short and the person could die childless.