Exodus 22:1-13 ▼

1 “ If a man steals an ox or a sheep and he slaughters it or sells it, five of the herd he shall repay for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

2 If the thief is found in the breaking in, and he is struck and he dies, there is no bloodguilt for him.

3 If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for him. He shall surely repay …; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft is actually found in his hand alive—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he shall repay double.

5 If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed, and he sends out his animal and it grazes in the field of another man, then from the best of his field and from the best of his vineyard he shall repay.

6 If fire goes out and finds thorns, and stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who kindled the fire, He shall surely repay.

7 If a man gives to his neighbor silver or articles to keep and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

8 If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges to see if he has not stretched out his hand against the property of his neighbor.

9 For every matter of trespass, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing that one says that this is it, the matter of the two of them shall come before the judges; whomever the judges condemn, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

10 If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is taken captive, without one seeing it,

11 an oath of YHWH shall be between the two of them—that he has not stretched out his hand against the property of his neighbor, and its owner shall accept this and he shall not repay.

12 But if it is actually stolen from him, he shall repay to its owner.

13 If it was torn to pieces, then he shall bring it as a witness of the torn thing. He shall not repay.