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* If a man shall steal an (note :)Either a great beast of the herd , or a small beast of the flock .(:note ) ox , or a sheep , and kill it , or sell it ; he shall restore five oxen for an ox , and four sheep for a sheep . * If a thief be found (note :)Breaking a house to enter in , or undermining .(:note ) 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 ] (note :)He shall be put to death that kills him .(:note ) 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 bee founde with him , aliue , (whether it be oxe , asse , or sheepe ) he shal restore the double . * If a man doe hurt fielde , or vineyarde , and put in his beast to feed in an other mans fielde , he shall recompence of the best of his owne fielde , and of the best of his owne vineyard . * If fire breake out , and catche in ye thornes , and the stackes of corne , or the standing corne , or the fielde be consumed , he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution . * If a man deliuer his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe , and it be stollen out of his house , if the thiefe be found , he shall pay the double . * If the thief be not found , then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges , [to see ] whether he have (note :)That is , whether he has stolen .(:note ) put his hand unto his neighbour 's goods . * In all maner of trespasse , whether it bee for oxen , for asse , for sheepe , for raiment , or for any maner of lost thing , which an other chalengeth to be his , the cause of both parties shal come before the iudges , and whom the Iudges condemne , he shall pay the double vnto his neighbour . * If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour to keepe asse , or oxe , or sheepe , or any beast , and it die , or be hurt , or taken away by enemies , and no man see it , * * But if it be stollen fro him , he shal make restitution vnto the owner thereof . * If it be torn in pieces , [then ] let him bring (note :)He shall show some part of the beast or bring in witnesses .(:note ) it [for ] witness , [and ] he shall not make good that which was torn . * And if a man borow ought of his neighbour , and it be hurt , or els die , the owner thereof not being by , he shal surely make it good . * [But ] if the owner thereof [be ] with it , he shall not make [it ] good : if it [be ] an hired [thing ], it (note :)He that hired it shall be free by paying the hire .(:note ) came for his hire . * And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed , and lie with her , hee shall endowe her , and take her to his wife . * If her father refuse to giue her to him , hee shal pay money , according to ye dowry of virgins . * Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue . * Whosoeuer lieth with a beast , shall dye the death . * Hee that offereth vnto any gods , saue vnto the Lord onely , shalbe slaine . * Moreouer , thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger , neither oppresse him : for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt . * Ye shall not trouble any widowe , nor fatherlesse childe . * If thou vexe or trouble such , and so he call and cry vnto me , I will surely heare his cry . * And my wrath shall wax hot , and I will kill you with the sword ; and your (note :)The just plague of God on the oppressors .(:note ) wives shall be widows , and your children fatherless . * If thou lende money to my people , that is , to the poore with thee , thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him : yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie . * If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge , thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe : * 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 (note :)For cold and necessity .(:note ) crieth unto me , that I will hear ; for I [am ] gracious . * Thou shalt not raile vpon the Iudges , neither speake euil of the ruler of thy people . * Thou shalt not delay [to offer ] the (note :)Your abundance of your corn .(:note ) first of thy ripe fruits , and of thy liquors : the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me . * Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen &amp ; with thy sheepe : seuen dayes it shall bee with his damme , and the eight day thou shalt giue 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 (note :)And so have nothing to do with it .(:note ) to the dogs .

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