The Law of Moses - Exodus 22

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.  Exodus 22:1 

Exodus 22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that  he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 22:4 If the  theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox,  or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.  

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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: 

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 22:12 And if it  be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner  thereof. 

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he  shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.  

Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.  

Exodus 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put  to death.  

Exodus 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the  LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.  

Exodus 22:21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress  him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.  

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

Exodus 22:23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry  at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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: 

Exodus 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.  

Exodus 22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler  of thy people.  

Exodus 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. 

Exodus 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.   

Exodus 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. KJV

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