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Protection of Property
22:1 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.
22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that
he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
22:3 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.
22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,
whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
22:5 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.
22:6 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.
22:7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or
stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if
the thief be found, let him pay double.
22:8 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 neighbor's goods.
22:9 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 neighbor.
22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbor 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:
22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both,
that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and
the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make
it good.
22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make
restitution unto the owner thereof.
22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for
witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.
22:14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbor, and it be
hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall
surely make it good.
22:15 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.
Social Responsibility
22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not
betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be
his wife.
22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he
shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to
death.
22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD
only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him:
for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
22:22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all
unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
22:24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with
the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.
22:25 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.
22:26 If thou at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge,
thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
22:27 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.
22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler
of thy people.
22:29 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.
22:30 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.
22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye
eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall
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