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 shall be found breaking through, and be smitten
that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
22:3 If the sun shall have 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 shall be certainly found in his hand alive,
whether an 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 shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the
stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field shall be
consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
22:7 If a man shall deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to
keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief
shall be found, let him pay double.
22:8 If the thief shall not be found, then the master of the
house shall be brought to the judges, [to see] whether he hath
put his hand to his neighbor'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] he whom the judges
shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbor.
22:10 If a man shall deliver to his neighbor an ass, or an ox,
or a sheep, or any beast to keep; and it shall 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 to his neighbor's goods; and the
owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make
restitution.
22:12 And if it shall be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution to the owner of it.
22:13 If it shall 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 shall borrow [aught] of his neighbor, and it
shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it [being] not with it, he
shall surely make [it] good.
22:15 [But] if the owner of it shall [be] with it, he shall not
make [it] good: if it [be] a hired [thing], it came for his
hire.
22:16 And if a man shall 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 shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he
shall pay money according to the dower of virgins.
22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
22:19 Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
22:20 He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to 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 shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at
all to 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 shalt lend money to [any of] my people [that is]
poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither
shalt thou lay upon him usury.
22:26 If thou shalt at all take thy neighbor's raiment to
pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun.
22:27 For that [is] his only covering, it [is] his raiment for
his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass,
when he crieth to 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 first-born of thy sons shalt
thou give to me.
22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thy oxen, [and] with thy
sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day
thou shalt give it to me.
22:31 And ye shall be holy men to 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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