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Compensation under the law of Moses

For personal injuries

Exodus 21:26-27 See also Exodus 21:32

For the loss of an animal

Exodus 21:33-34 See also Exodus 21:35-36

For theft

Exodus 22:1,3-4 See also Exodus 22:7-9

For damage to property

Exodus 22:5-6

For breach of trust

Exodus 22:10-15; Leviticus 6:1-7; Numbers 5:5-7 Compensation was only paid when someone was at fault. Similar laws apparently existed in patriarchal times: see Ge 31:39.

Compensation later in the OT

The law applied by David

2 Samuel 12:4-6

Sevenfold compensation for theft

Proverbs 6:30-31 presumably “sevenfold” here means “manifold”; he will pay in full

Adultery beyond compensation

Proverbs 6:32-35

Compensation a mark of repentance

Ezekiel 33:15

Compensation in the NT

For losses inflicted

Luke 19:8 In his zeal, after being converted, Zacchaeus goes beyond the requirements of the law. See also Phm 18-19

For losses sustained for the gospel

Matthew 19:29 pp Luke 18:29-30 God is far more generous under grace than he required wrongdoers to be under law.

See also

5276  crime
5375  law
5398  loss
5482  punishment
5492  restitution
5555  stealing
5679  dowry