Dual Panel1When a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five beasts for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
2He must pay in full; if he has no means, he is to be sold to pay for the theft. But if the animal is found alive in his possession, be it ox, donkey, or sheep, he must repay two for each one stolen. If a burglar is caught in the act and receives a fatal injury, it is not murder; but if he breaks in after sunrise and receives a fatal injury, then it is murder.
3(22:2)
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5When a man burns off a field or a vineyard and lets the fire spread so that it burns another man's field, he must make restitution from his own field according to the yield expected; and if the whole field is laid waste, he must make restitution from the best part of his own field or vineyard.
6When a fire starts and spreads to a thorn hedge, so that sheaves, or standing grain, or a whole field is destroyed, whoever started the fire must make full restitution.
7When someone gives another silver or chattels for safe keeping, and they are stolen from that person's house, the thief, if apprehended, must restore twofold.
8But if the thief is not apprehended, the owner of the house will have to appear before God for it to be ascertained whether or not he has laid hands on his neighbour's property.
9In every case of misappropriation involving an ox, a donkey, or a sheep, a cloak, or any lost property which may be claimed, each party must bring his case before God; the one whom God declares to be in the wrong will have to restore double to his neighbour.
10When someone gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any beast into a neighbour's keeping, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, there being no witness,
11then by swearing by the LORD it will have to be settled between them whether or not the neighbour has laid hands on the other's property. If not, no restitution is to be made and the owner must accept this.
12If it has been stolen from the neighbour, he must make restitution to its owner.
13If it has been mauled by a wild beast, he must bring it in as evidence; he will not have to make restitution for what has been mauled.
14When a man borrows a beast from his neighbour and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, the borrower must make full restitution;
15but if the owner is with it, the borrower does not have to make restitution. If it was hired, only the hire is due.
16When a man seduces a virgin who is not yet betrothed, he must pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.
17If her father refuses to give her to him, the seducer must pay in silver a sum equal to the bride-price for virgins.
18You must not allow a witch to live.
19Whoever has sexual intercourse with a beast must be put to death.
20Whoever sacrifices to any god but the LORD must be put to death under solemn ban.
21You must not wrong or oppress an alien; you were yourselves aliens in Egypt.
22You must not wrong a widow or a fatherless child.
23If you do, and they appeal to me, be sure that I shall listen;
24my anger will be roused and I shall kill you with the sword; your own wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
25If you advance money to any poor man amongst my people, you are not to act like a moneylender; you must not exact interest from him.
26If you take your neighbour's cloak in pawn, return it to him by sunset,
27because it is his only covering. It is the cloak in which he wraps his body; in what else can he sleep? If he appeals to me, I shall listen, for I am full of compassion.
28You must not revile God, nor curse a chief of your own people.
29You must not hold back the first of your harvest, whether grain or wine. You must give me your firstborn sons.
30You must do the same with your oxen and your sheep. They should stay with the mother for seven days; on the eighth day you are to give them to me.
31You must be holy to me: you are not to eat the flesh of anything killed by beasts in the open country; you are to throw it to the dogs.