Exodus:22

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* 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 . * 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 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 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Ye shall not afflict any widow , or fatherless child . * If thou afflict them in any wise , and they cry at all unto me , I will surely hear their cry ; * And my wrath shall wax hot , and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows , and your children fatherless . * 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 . * If thou at all take thy neighbour 's raiment to pledge , thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down : * 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 . * Thou shalt not revile the gods , nor curse the ruler of thy people . * 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 . * 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 .

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