23:4 “If you encounter 3 your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return 4 it to him.
1 tn The construction again uses the infinitive absolute with the verb in the conditional clause to stress the condition.
2 tn The clause uses the preposition, the infinitive construct, and the noun that is the subjective genitive – “at the going in of the sun.”
3 tn Heb “meet” (so KJV, ASV, NASB).
4 tn The construction uses the imperfect tense (taken here as an obligatory imperfect) and the infinitive absolute for emphasis.