Exodus 22

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

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

³If the sun has risen upon him, there is blood guilt for him. He shall surely make restitution; if he has nothing, he shall be sold for his theft.

⁴If the stolen animal is actually found alive in his possession, whether ox or donkey or sheep, he shall repay double.

⁵When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his livestock loose and 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.

⁶When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire shall make full restitution.

⁷When a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

⁸If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall come near to God to see whether he has not stretched out his hand against the property of his neighbor.

⁹For every matter of transgression — whether for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garment, or for any lost thing of which someone says, 'This is it' — the case of both parties shall come before God; whoever God declares guilty shall pay double to his neighbor.

¹⁰If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any animal, to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is carried off — with no one seeing —

¹¹an oath by the LORD shall be between both of them, that he did not lay his hand on his neighbor's property; and the owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

¹²But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

¹³If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.

¹⁴If a man borrows anything from his neighbor and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.

¹⁵If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution. If it was hired, it came for its hire.

¹⁶If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall pay the bride price for her and make her his wife.

¹⁷If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay silver in accordance with the bride-price of virgins.

¹⁸A sorceress you shall not allow to live.

¹⁹Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.

²⁰Whoever sacrifices to gods, other than to the Lord alone, shall be put under the ban.

²¹And a sojourner you shall not wrong, and you shall not oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

²²You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

²³If you do indeed mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,

²⁴and my anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

²⁵If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.

²⁶If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

²⁷For it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. In what else shall he lie? And when he cries to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

²⁸God you shall not curse, and a leader among your people you shall not revile.

²⁹The fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your presses you shall not delay; the firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.

³⁰You shall do likewise with your ox and your flock: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

³¹And men of holiness you shall be to me; and flesh torn in the field you shall not eat — to the dog you shall throw it.