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.
sheep. or, goat. He shall. There is a smaller compensation required in other things and also a disproportion between an ox and a sheep. The reason of the former is, as Maimonides explains it, because money, goods, etc., are better guarded in houses and cities, than cattle in a field; which consequently can be more easily stolen. The reason of the latter seems to be, as it is explained by Bishop Patrick, that an ox was of greater value, and more useful for the purposes of husbandry.
Leviticus 6:1-6 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Numbers 5:7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall …
2 Samuel 12:6 And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, …
Proverbs 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all …
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half …
five oxen
Proverbs 14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the …
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
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.
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
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 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.
if fire break out. Mr. Harmer observes, that it is a common custom in the East to set the dry herbage on fire; which fires, from want of care, often produce great damage. Hence a law to guard against such evils was highly expedient. so that the stacks of corn
Judges 15:4,5 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, …
2 Samuel 14:30,31 Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, …
he that kindled the fire
Exodus 22:9,12 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for …
Exodus 21:33,34 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not …
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.
if the thief be found
Proverbs 6:30,31 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry…
Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel …
John 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was …
1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, …
let him pay double
Exodus 22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be …
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.
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.
for all manner of trespass
Numbers 5:6,7 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit …
1 Kings 8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on …
Matthew 6:14,15 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will …
Matthew 18:15,35 Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell …
Luke 17:3,4 Take heed to yourselves: If your brother trespass against you, rebuke …
the cause of both parties
Exodus 18:21,22 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as …
Exodus 23:6-8 You shall not wrest the judgment of your poor in his cause…
Deuteronomy 16:18,19 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which the …
Deuteronomy 25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, …
2 Chronicles 19:10 And what cause soever shall come to you of your brothers that dwell …
Pay double unto his
Exodus 22:4,7 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be …
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:
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.
an oath of the Lord
Leviticus 5:1 And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, …
Leviticus 6:3 Or have found that which was lost, and lies concerning it, and swears …
1 Kings 2:42,43 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not …
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …
Hebrews 6:16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation …
that he hath not
Exodus 22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be …
Exodus 23:1 You shall not raise a false report: put not your hand with the wicked …
And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
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.
borrow
Deuteronomy 15:2 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lends …
Deuteronomy 23:19,20 You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury of money, usury …
Nehemiah 5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's …
Psalm 37:21 The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, …
Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asks you, and from him that would borrow of you …
Luke 6:35 But love you your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing …
make it good
Exodus 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he has …
Exodus 21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owner …
Leviticus 24:18 And he that kills a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
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.
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
Leviticus 19:26,31 You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use …
Leviticus 20:6,27 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and …
Deuteronomy 18:10,11 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …
1 Samuel 28:3,9 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried …
Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …
Acts 8:9-11 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the …
Acts 16:16-19 And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed …
Acts 19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, …
Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, …
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, …
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
vex a stranger
Exodus 23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of …
Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn with you in your land, you shall not vex him.
Leviticus 25:35 And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; …
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 7:6 If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and …
Jeremiah 22:3 Thus said the LORD; Execute you judgment and righteousness, and deliver …
Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
for ye were strangers
Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD your God, which have brought you out of the land of …
Exodus 23:9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger: for you know the heart of …
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 15:15 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, …
Deuteronomy 23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall …
Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Deuteronomy 10:18 He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves …
Deuteronomy 24:17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; …
Deuteronomy 27:19 Cursed be he that perverts the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, …
Psalm 94:6,7 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless…
Isaiah 1:17,23 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the …
Isaiah 10:2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right …
Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
Zechariah 7:10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor…
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To …
If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
they cry at all
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, …
Deuteronomy 24:15 At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go …
Job 31:38,39 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain…
Job 35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed …
Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night to …
I will surely
Job 34:28 So that they cause the cry of the poor to come to him, and he hears …
Psalm 10:17,18 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their …
Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard …
Psalm 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and …
Psalm 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear …
Psalm 146:7-9 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the …
Proverbs 22:22,23 Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted …
Proverbs 23:10,11 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless…
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
my wrath
Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his …
Psalm 69:24 Pour out your indignation on them, and let your wrathful anger take …
Psalm 76:7 You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight …
Psalm 90:11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so …
Nahum 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness …
Romans 2:5-9 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …
Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
your wives
Job 27:13-15 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of …
Psalm 78:63,64 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given …
Psalm 109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Jeremiah 15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas…
Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their …
Lamentations 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and …
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.
Leviticus 25:35-37 And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; …
Deuteronomy 23:19,20 You shall not lend on usury to your brother; usury of money, usury …
2 Kings 4:1,7 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets …
Nehemiah 5:2-5,7,10,11 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: …
Psalm 15:5 He that puts not out his money to usury, nor takes reward against …
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall …
Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and …
Ezekiel 18:8,17 He that has not given forth on usury, neither has taken any increase, …
Matthew 25:27 You ought therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then …
Luke 19:23 Why then gave not you my money into the bank, that at my coming I …
If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
to pledge
Deuteronomy 24:6,10-13,17 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for …
Job 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped …
Job 24:3,9 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's …
Proverbs 20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge …
Proverbs 22:27 If you have nothing to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
Ezekiel 18:7,16 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, …
Ezekiel 33:15 If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, …
Amos 2:8 And they lay themselves down on clothes laid to pledge by every altar…
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.
when he crieth
Exodus 2:23,24 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …
Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of …
Psalm 72:12 For he shall deliver the needy when he cries; the poor also, and …
Isaiah 19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to the LORD of hosts …
for I am gracious
Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The …
2 Chronicles 30:9 For if you turn again to the LORD, your brothers and your children …
Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long …
Psalm 136:10,11 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever…
Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
the gods. or judges
Exodus 22:8,9 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be …
Psalm 32:6 For this shall every one that is godly pray to you in a time when …
Psalm 82:1-7 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…
Psalm 138:1 I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing …
John 10:34,35 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods…
nor curse
Exodus 21:17 And he that curses his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
1 Samuel 24:6,10 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing …
1 Samuel 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich …
Acts 23:3,5 Then said Paul to him, God shall smite you, you white washed wall: …
Romans 13:2-7 Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: …
Titus 3:1,2 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey …
1 Peter 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, …
Jude 1:8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, …
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.
shalt not delay
Exodus 23:16,19 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which …
Deuteronomy 26:2-10 That you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which …
2 Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God …
2 Chronicles 31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel …
Proverbs 3:9,10 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of …
Ezekiel 20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, …
Micah 7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, …
Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits …
James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should …
the first of they ripe fruits. Heb. they fulness. liquors. Heb. tear. the firstborn
Exodus 13:2,12 Sanctify to me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the …
Exodus 34:19 All that opens the matrix is mine; and every firstling among your …
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.
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.
holy
Exodus 19:5,6 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, …
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the LORD that brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to …
Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …
Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give …
1 Peter 1:15,16 But as he which has called you is holy, so be you holy in all manner …
neither
Leviticus 17:15,16 And every soul that eats that which died of itself, or that which …
Leviticus 20:25 You shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, …
Leviticus 22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat …
Deuteronomy 14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you shall give …
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted…
Ezekiel 44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or …
Acts 10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that …
Acts 15:20 But that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, …
