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Property Rights
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
Property Laws
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.
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.
“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.
If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.
“But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
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.
“If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.
If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.
“If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
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.
“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.
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.
“If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay 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;
“If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.
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.
“For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay 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.
“If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,
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],
an oath before the LORD shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not 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.
“But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner.
“If it is all torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn to pieces.
If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn.
“If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full 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;
“If its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.
if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire.
Sundry Laws
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Laws of Social Responsibility
And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his 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.
“If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.
“Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.
Every one that lieth with a beast shall certainly be put to death.
“He who sacrifices to any god, other than to the LORD alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
-- He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.
“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.
“You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.
Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
“If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;
If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;
and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
“If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.
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.
“If you ever take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets,
-- If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;
for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.
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.
“You shall not curse God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people.
“You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give 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.
“You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give 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.