Exodus 22

1 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.

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.

2 If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood for him;

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.

3 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;

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.

4 if the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether ox, or donkey, or sheep—he repays double.

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

5 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.

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.

6 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.

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.

7 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.

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.

8 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.

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.

9 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.

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.

10 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—

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: ]

11 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;

[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.

12 but if it is certainly stolen from him, he repays to its owner;

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 if it is certainly torn, he brings it in [as] a witness; he does not repay the torn thing.

If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.

14 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;

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.

15 if its owner [is] with it, he does not repay—if it [is] a hired thing, it has come for its hire.

[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.

16 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;

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

17 if her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he weighs out money according to the dowry of virgins.

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

18 You do not keep a witch alive.

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 Whoever lies with a beast is certainly put to death.

Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

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

He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

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

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 You do not afflict any widow or orphan;

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 if you really afflict him, surely if he cries to Me at all, I certainly hear his cry;

If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

24 and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 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;

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.

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

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

27 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.

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.

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

Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

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

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.

30 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.

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.

31 And you are holy men to Me, and you do not eat flesh torn in the field, you cast it to a dog.

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.