The Lord then answered him and said, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it?

And if you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall turn them back and restore them to him.

And if you see your enemy's donkey fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by it, but you shall help to raise it with him.

This is the interpretation of it, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king:

Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who shall have one sheep, and if it should fall into a ditch on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

By how much then is a man worth more than a sheep! So then it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."