By the way: meaning “along the road” (Contemporary English Version). The animal’s owner is there, trying to lift it up.

You shall help him to lift them up again: The Hebrew is emphatic, with the double use of the verb, “helping lift up … you shall help.” Good News Translation has “help him get the animal to its feet again.” We may also translate in a way similar to the Hebrew, with “You shall help him lift the animal up so that it stands on its feet again.”

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 .