Exodus 22

Exo 22:1 When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.
Exo 22:2 If the thief is found breaking in, and is stricken and dies, no blood shall be shed for him.
Exo 22:3 If the sun has risen on him, blood is due for him; repaying he shall repay. If he has nothing, then he should be sold for his theft.
Exo 22:4 If the stolen thing finding is found in his hand alive, from ox to ass to flock animal, he shall pay double.
Exo 22:5 When a man consumes a field or a vineyard, and he lets his beast loose and it consumes another’s field, he shall repay the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.
Exo 22:6 When fire breaks out and finds thorns, and shocked grain, or standing grain, or the field is burned up, repaying the one kindling the fire shall repay.
Exo 22:7 When a man gives silver or vessels to his neighbor to keep, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is found, he shall repay double.
Exo 22:8 If the thief is not found, the master of the house shall be brought to God, to see whether or not he put out his hand to his neighbor’s goods.
Exo 22:9 In every matter of trespass, for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, for anything lost of which it is said that it is his, the case of both of them shall come to God. Whom God declares guilty, he shall repay double to his neighbor.
Exo 22:10 When a man gives an ass or an ox to his neighbor; or a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is captured, no one seeing it,
Exo 22:11 an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand to his neighbor’s goods. And its owner shall take it, and he shall not repay.
Exo 22:12 And if it is indeed stolen from him, he shall repay to its owner.
Exo 22:13 If it is completely torn in pieces, he shall bring it as a witness; he shall not repay that which was torn.
Exo 22:14 And when a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is hurt, or dies, its owner not being with it, paying he shall repay.
Exo 22:15 If its owner is with it, he shall not repay. If it is hired, it comes for its hire.
Exo 22:16 And when a man lures a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, paying he shall pay her dowry for a wife to himself.
Exo 22:17 If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.
Exo 22:18 You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Exo 22:19 Anyone lying with an animal, dying he shall die.
Exo 22:20 One sacrificing to a god shall be destroyed, unless it is only to Jehovah.
Exo 22:21 You shall not be violent toward an alien. You shall not oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exo 22:22 You shall not afflict an orphan or a widow.
Exo 22:23 If you afflict him, if he at all cries to Me, hearing I will hear his cry,
Exo 22:24 and My anger shall glow, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.
Exo 22:25 If you lend money to My people, the poor with you, you shall not be as a money-lender to him; you shall not put interest on him.
Exo 22:26 If you indeed take the clothing of your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going of the sun,
Exo 22:27 for that is his only covering, that is his covering for his skin. In what shall he lie down? And it shall be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Exo 22:28 You shall not revile God, and you shall not curse a ruler among your people.
Exo 22:29 You shall not delay giving the fullness of your crops and the juices of your vintage. You shall give to Me the first-born of your sons.
Exo 22:30 So you shall do to your oxen, to your sheep: it shall be seven days with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
Exo 22:31 And you shall be holy men to Me. And you shall not eat flesh torn in pieces; you shall throw it to the dogs.

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