Exodus
Chapter 22
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22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep,
and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be
shed for him.
22:3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make
full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
sheep; he shall restore double.
22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and
shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his
own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing
corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep,
and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be
brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his
neighbour's goods.
22:9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or
for any manner of lost thing which another
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto
his neighbour.
22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to
keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be
between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner
of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the
owner thereof.
22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make
good that which was torn.
22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner
thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
22:15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired
thing, it came for his hire.
22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely
endow her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to
the dowry of virgins.
22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he
shall be utterly destroyed.
22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt.
22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear
their cry;
22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will
kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
22:25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to
him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him
usury.
22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto
him by that the sun goeth down:
22:27 For that is his covering only, it is his
raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth
unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the
firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be
with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh
that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
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