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.

When a man steals an ox or sheep, and has slaughtered it or sold it, he repays [with] five of the herd for the ox, and four of the flock 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 in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood 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 has risen on him, blood [is] for him, he certainly repays; if he has nothing, then he has 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 theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether ox, or donkey, or sheep—he repays 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.

When a man depastures a field or vineyard, and has sent out his beast, and it has pastured in the field of another, he repays [with] the best of his field, and the best of his vineyard.

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.

When fire goes forth and has found thorns, and a stack, or the standing grain, or the field has been consumed, he who causes the burning certainly repays.

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.

When a man gives silver or vessels to his neighbor to keep, and it has been stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief is found, he repays 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 is not found, then the master of the house has been brought near to God [to see] whether he has not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbor.

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.

For every matter of transgression, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for raiment, for any lost thing of which it is said that it is his, the matter of them both comes to God; he whom God condemns repays double to his neighbor.

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,

When a man gives to his neighbor a donkey, or ox, or sheep, or any beast to keep, and it has died, or has been hurt, or taken captive, [with] none seeing—

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 YHWH is between them both, that he has not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbor, and its owner has accepted, and he does not repay;

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

but if it is certainly stolen from him, he repays to 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 is certainly torn, he brings it in [as] a witness; he does not repay the torn thing.

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 when a man asks for [anything] from his neighbor, and it has been hurt or has died—its owner not being with it—he certainly repays;

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

if its owner [is] with it, he does not repay—if it [is] a hired thing, it has come 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 when a man entices a virgin who [is] not betrothed, and has lain with her, he certainly endows her to himself for a 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 refuses to give her to him, he weighs out money according to the dowry of virgins.

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

You do not keep a witch alive.

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

Whoever lies with a beast is certainly put to death.

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

He who is sacrificing to a god, except to YHWH alone, is devoted.

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

And you do not oppress a sojourner, nor crush him, for you have been sojourners in the land of Egypt.

22 You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

You do not afflict any widow or orphan;

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

if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I 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 has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

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 you lend money [to] My poor people [who are] with you, you are not as a usurer to him; you do not lay usury on him;

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 you take the garment of your neighbor in pledge at all, you return it to him during the going in of the sun:

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 it is his only covering, it [is] his garment for his skin; wherein does he lie down? And it has come to pass, when he cries to Me, that I have heard, for I [am] gracious.

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

You do not revile God, and you do not curse a prince among your people.

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

You do not delay your fullness and your liquids; you give the firstborn of your sons to 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.

so you do to your ox [and] to your sheep; it is with its mother [for] seven days, on the eighth day you give it to 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 you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.