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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.
02 If a thief be found breaking up, and be
smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed
for him.
03 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.
04 If the theft be certainly found in his
hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep;
he shall restore double.
05 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.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
10 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:
11 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.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall
make restitution unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him
bring it for witness, and he shall not make good
that which was torn.
14 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.
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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.
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.
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her
unto him, he shall pay money according to the
dowry of virgins.
18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall
surely be put to death.
20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save
unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly
destroyed.
21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor
oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt.
22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or
fatherless child.
23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and
they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their
cry;
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.
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.
26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's
raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him
by that the sun goeth down:
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.
28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor
curse the ruler of thy 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 unto me.
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.
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 cast it to the
dogs.
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