Exodus 22:5
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If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

shall he make restitution

Exodus 22:3,12 But if he did this when the sun is risen, he hath committed murder, and he shall die. If he have not wherewith to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold. . . .

Exodus 21:34 The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Job 20:18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

Context
Property Laws
4If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double. 5If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.6If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:4
If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.

Exodus 22:6
If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss.

Numbers 16:14
Thou hast brought us indeed into a land that floweth with rivers of milk and honey, and hast given us possessions of fields and vineyards; wilt thou also pull out our eyes? We will not come.

Lexicon
If
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

a man
אִישׁ֙ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

grazes his livestock
יַבְעֶר־ (yaḇ·‘er-)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

in a field
שָׂדֶ֣ה (śā·ḏeh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

or
אוֹ־ (’ōw-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 176: Desire, if

vineyard
כֶ֔רֶם (ḵe·rem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3754: A garden, vineyard

and allows them
בְּעִיר֔וֹ (bə·‘î·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1165: Beasts, cattle

to stray
וְשִׁלַּח֙ (wə·šil·laḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7971: To send away, for, out

so that they graze
וּבִעֵ֖ר (ū·ḇi·‘êr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1197: To kindle, consume, to be, brutish

in someone else’s
אַחֵ֑ר (’a·ḥêr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 312: Hinder, next, other

field,
בִּשְׂדֵ֣ה (biś·ḏêh)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

he must make restitution
יְשַׁלֵּֽם׃ (yə·šal·lêm)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7999: To be safe, to be, completed, to be friendly, to reciprocate

from the best
מֵיטַ֥ב (mê·ṭaḇ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4315: The best part

of his own field
שָׂדֵ֛הוּ (śā·ḏê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land

or vineyard.
כַּרְמ֖וֹ (kar·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3754: A garden, vineyard


Additional Translations
If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or 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.

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it 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.

And if any one should feed down a field or a vineyard, and should send in his beast to feed down another field, he shall make compensation of his own field according to his produce; and if he shall have fed down the whole field, he shall pay for compensation the best of his own field and the best of his 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 man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it 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.

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.

"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

When a man depastureth a field or vineyard, and hath sent out his beast, and it hath pastured in the field of another, of the best of his field, and the best of his vineyard, he doth repay.
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