TO HIDE YOURSELF — the reflexive of alam, to conceal, and the verb Deuteronomy 22 uses three times for the thing you must not do when you see a neighbour's animal in trouble. ⭐ The grammar is the point: what is hidden is not the ox but YOU. The form stands in six verses of the Hebrew Bible and three of them are that one chapter — 22:1, 22:3 and 22:4. ⚠ Of the other three, Isaiah 58:7 is the one that matters (not yet on these pages): the great fasting chapter ends its account of a real fast with and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh — the identical verb, turned from a stray animal onto your own family. Psalm 55:2 asks God not to do it (do not hide yourself from my plea), and Job 6:16 uses it of snow hiding itself in a streambed. ⚠ Exodus 23:5, giving the same law of the animal belonging to a man who hates you, uses a different and flatter verb, chadal, to FORBEAR. Deuteronomy's replacement is the sharper one. ⚠ The shelf divides on whether to keep the reflexive: the KJV and ASV print 'hide thyself', the Geneva 'withdraw thyself' and the NWT 1984 'deliberately withdraw', while the NIV ('do not ignore it') and the TLB ('don't pretend you didn't see it') make it a decision about the animal instead of about the man. → first discussed at Deut 22:1