Exodus 22

1 “If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.

If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

2 If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.

3 But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.

If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.

4 If whatever he stole should be found with him, a living thing, either an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, he shall repay double.

If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.

5 If there is any damage to a field or a vineyard, when he has released his cattle to pasture on the land of a stranger, he shall repay the best of what he has in his own field, or in his own vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man's field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make [it] good.

6 If a fire will have been discovered departing from brush, and taking hold in stacks of grain, or in crops standing in the fields, whoever ignited the fire shall repay the damages.

— If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

7 If anyone will have entrusted money, or a container, to his friend to keep, and if these have been stolen from the one who received them: if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

— If a man 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 restore double;

8 If the thief is unknown, the lord of the house will be brought before the heavens to swear that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor,

if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

9 so as to perpetrate any fraud, such as with an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, or clothing, nor to do anything that would be able to cause damage. The case of both shall be brought before the heavens. And if they give judgment against him, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

As to all manner of fraud, — as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which [a man] saith, It is this — the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour.

10 If anyone will have entrusted a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to the keeping of his neighbor, and it will have died, or become disabled, or have been captured by enemies, and no one saw it,

If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see [it],

11 then there shall be an oath between them, that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor. And the owner shall accept the oath, and he will not be compelled to make restitution.

an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good.

12 But if it will have been taken away by theft, he shall repay the damages to the owner.

But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner.

13 If it has been eaten by a wild beast, let him carry what was killed to him, and then he shall not make restitution.

If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn.

14 If anyone borrows from his neighbor any of these things, and it has died or been disabled when the owner was not present, he shall be compelled to make restitution.

— And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good;

15 But if the owner was present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it had been brought for hired work.

if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire.

16 If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife.

And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

17 If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live.

— Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.

— Every one that lieth with a beast shall certainly be put to death.

20 Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.

— He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.

21 You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

23 If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry.

If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;

24 And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.

and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

— If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest.

26 If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.

— If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;

27 For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what shall he lie down? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 You shall not disparage the heavens, and you shall not speak evil of the leader of your people.

Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people.

29 You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

— Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy [threshing-floor] and the outflow of thy [winepress]. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 You shall do likewise with those of the oxen and the sheep. For seven days, let it be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall repay it to me.

Likewise shalt thou do with thy calf, with thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs.”

— And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog.