Exodus 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.

“If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.

2 If a thief shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

3 If the sun shall have 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.

But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold.

4 If the theft shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or donkey, or sheep; he shall restore double.

If whatever he stole should be found with him, a living thing, either an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, he shall repay double.

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.

If there is any damage to a field or a vineyard, when he has released his cattle to pasture on the land of a stranger, he shall repay the best of what he has in his own field, or in his own vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

6 If fire shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field, shall be consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

If a fire will have been discovered departing from brush, and taking hold in stacks of grain, or in crops standing in the fields, whoever ignited the fire shall repay the damages.

7 If a man shall deliver to his neighbour money or goods to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief shall be found, let him pay double.

If anyone will have entrusted money, or a container, to his friend to keep, and if these have been stolen from the one who received them: if the thief is found, he shall repay double.

8 If the thief shall not be found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, to see whether he hath put his hand to his neighbour’s goods.

If the thief is unknown, the lord of the house will be brought before the heavens to swear that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor,

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, 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 he whom the judges shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbour.

so as to perpetrate any fraud, such as with an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, or clothing, nor to do anything that would be able to cause damage. The case of both shall be brought before the heavens. And if they give judgment against him, he shall repay double to his neighbor.

10 If a man shall deliver to his neighbour a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it shall die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

If anyone will have entrusted a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to the keeping of his neighbor, and it will have died, or become disabled, or have been captured by enemies, and no one saw it,

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make restitution.

then there shall be an oath between them, that he did not lay his hand on the goods of his neighbor. And the owner shall accept the oath, and he will not be compelled to make restitution.

12 And if it shall be stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.

But if it will have been taken away by theft, he shall repay the damages to the owner.

13 If it shall be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

If it has been eaten by a wild beast, let him carry what was killed to him, and then he shall not make restitution.

14 And if a man shall borrow any thing from his neighbour, and it shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

If anyone borrows from his neighbor any of these things, and it has died or been disabled when the owner was not present, he shall be compelled to make restitution.

15 But if the owner of it shall be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

But if the owner was present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it had been brought for hired work.

16 And if a man shall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife.

17 If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive.

18 Thou shalt not allow a witch to live.

You shall not permit practitioners of the black arts to live.

19 Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal shall be put to death.

20 He that sacrificeth to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Whoever immolates to gods, other than to the Lord, shall be killed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

You shall not harass the newcomer, nor shall you afflict him. For you yourselves were once newcomers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

You shall not harm a widow or an orphan.

23 If thou shalt afflict them in any way, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry.

24 And my wrath shall burn, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.

25 If thou shalt lend money to any of my people that is poor among you, thou shalt not be to him as a money-lender, neither shalt thou charge him interest.

If you lend money to the poor of my people who live among you, you shall not coerce them like a collector, nor oppress them with usury.

26 If thou shalt at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun.

If you take a garment from your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him again before the setting of the sun.

27 For that is his only covering, it is his raiment for his skin: what shall he sleep in? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

For it is all that he has to cover himself, to clothe his body; nor does he have anything else in which to sleep. If he cries out to me, I will hear him, because I am compassionate.

28 Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

You shall not disparage the heavens, and you shall not speak evil of the leader of your people.

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 to me.

You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thy oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.

You shall do likewise with those of the oxen and the sheep. For seven days, let it be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall repay it to me.

31 And ye shall be holy men to me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

You shall be holy men for me. The flesh, from which beasts will have tasted, you shall not eat, but you will throw it to the dogs.”