Exodus 22
1 If a man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it: five oxen shall he restore 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 be found while breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood for him;
3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; he shall make full restitution; if he have nothing, then shall he be sold for his theft.
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 the thing stolen be actually found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.
if the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether ox, or donkey, or sheep—he repays double.
5 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten off, and he let his beasts enter, and they feed in another man's field; with the best of his own field, and with best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
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 break out, and meet with thorns, so that stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed thereby, he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
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 a man do deliver unto his neighbor money or vessels to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house: if the thief be found, he shall pay 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 be not found, then shall the master of the house be brought unto the judges, [to swear] that he have not stretched out his hand against his neighbor's goods.
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 For all manner of trespass, for ox, for ass, for lamb, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, of which he can say, This is it, before the judges shall come the cause of both parties, and he, whom the judges may condemn, shall pay double unto 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 a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a lamb, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing 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 shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he have not stretched out his hand against his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept this, and he shall not make it good.
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 be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
but if it is certainly stolen from him, he repays to its owner;
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it as evidence; that which was torn he shall not make good.
if it is certainly torn, he brings it in [as] a witness; he does not repay the torn thing.
14 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make it good.
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 thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hired thing, the loss is included in its hire.
if its owner [is] with it, he does not repay—if it [is] a hired thing, it has come for its hire.
16 And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his 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 her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
if her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he weighs out money according to the dowry of virgins.
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
You do not keep a witch alive.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Whoever lies with a beast is certainly put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, shall be utterly destroyed.
He who is sacrificing to a god, except to YHWH alone, is devoted.
21 And a stranger thou shalt not vex, and shalt not oppress him; for strangers ye were 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 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
You do not afflict any widow or orphan;
23 If thou afflict him in any wise; [for if he cry at all unto me, I will surely hear his cry: ]
if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I certainly hear his cry;
24 My wrath shall wax hot, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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 thou lend money to my people, to the poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a lender of money; thou shalt not lay upon him 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 thou take at all thy neighbor's raiment in pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by the time the sun goeth down;
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 his only covering, 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.
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 The judges thou shalt not revile; and a ruler among thy people thou shalt not curse.
You do not revile God, and you do not curse a prince among your people.
29 The first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors, shalt thou not delay to offer; the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
You do not delay your fullness and your liquids; you give the firstborn of your sons to Me;
30 In like manner shalt thou do with thy ox, with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it 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 And holy men shall ye be unto me: and flesh that is torn of beasts in the field, shall ye not eat; to the dogs shall ye cast it.
And you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.
