clothes

The Hebrew and Greek that is translated with “clothes” or similar in English is translated in Enlhet as “crawling-in-stuff” (source: Jacob Loewen in The Bible Translator 1971, p. 169ff. ) and in Noongar as bwoka or “Kangaroo skin” (source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang).

Translation commentary on Deuteronomy 22:3

And so you shall do: this verse expands the instructions to apply to a fellow Israelite’s ass, garment, or anything else he may have lost (any lost thing of your brother’s). For ass or “donkey” see 5.14.

You may not withhold your help: using the same verb used in verse 1. Good News Translation expresses this clause at the beginning of the verse, with “Do the same thing,” referring back to help in verse 1. Contemporary English Version has “Do whatever you can to help.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .