Exodus22

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(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:2) If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, {there shall} no blood {be shed} for him.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:4) If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:7) 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.
(Exo 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 neighbour's goods.
(Exo 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 neighbour.
(Exo 22:10) 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}:
(Exo 22:11) {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.
(Exo 22:12) And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:14) 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.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:17) If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
(Exo 22:18) Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
(Exo 22:19) Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
(Exo 22:20) He that sacrificeth unto {any} god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
(Exo 22:21) Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
(Exo 22:22) Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
(Exo 22:23) If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
(Exo 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.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:26) If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:
(Exo 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.
(Exo 22:28) Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 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.
(Exo 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 cast it to the dogs.
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