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21:37 When a man◦ shall steal an ox or a sheep◦, and shall butcher it, or sell it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep◦.
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1 If a thief be found while digging··through, and be smitten, and die, no bloods* shall be shed for him.
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2 If the sun have risen◦ upon him, bloods shall be shed for him; repaying he shall repay; if he have nothing, he shall··be··sold for his theft.
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3 If finding the theft be··found in his hand, from an ox even··to a donkey, even··to an animal··of··the··flock, living; he shall repay two times.
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4 When◦ a man◦ shall desolate◦* a field or a vineyard, and shall send··out his brutish beast, and it shall desolate◦* the field of another; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, he shall repay.
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5 When◦ a fire shall go··forth, and shall find thorns, and a stack is devoured, or the standing··grain, or the field; he who burns the burning, repaying he shall repay.
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6 When a man◦ shall give to his companion silver or vessels to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s◦ house; if the thief be··found, he shall repay double.
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7 If the thief be· not ·found, the master of the house shall be brought··near to God, to see if he has put··forth◦ his hand into the business of his companion.
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8 Over every word of transgression, Over an ox, Over a donkey, Over an animal··of··the··flock, Over raiment, Over every lost thing, of which he shall say that it is this, even··to God shall come the word of the two of them; he whom God shall condemn shall repay two times to his companion.
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9 When◦ a man◦ shall give to▵ his companion a donkey, or an ox, or an animal··of··the··flock, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be broken, or be taken··captive, no one seeing it;
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10 the promise of Jehovah shall be between the two of them, to see if he has put··forth◦ his hand into the business of his companion, and his master has taken it, and he shall not repay.
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11 And if stealing it shall be stolen from him, he shall repay to its master.
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12 If tearing it shall be torn, he shall bring a witness for it*; he shall not repay that which was torn.
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13 And when a man◦ shall ask from his companion, and it be broken, or die, the master thereof not being with it, repaying he shall repay.
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14 If the master thereof be with it, he shall not repay; if he is a hireling he shall come in his hire.
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15 And when◦ a man◦ shall entice a virgin who is not betrothed, and shall lie with her, endowing he shall endow her to himself for a woman.
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16 If her father refusing shall refuse to give her to him, he shall weigh silver according··to the dowry of virgins.
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17 Thou shalt not let· a sorceress ·live.
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18 All who lie with a beast, dying he shall··die.
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19 He who sacrifices to gods, except▵ to Jehovah alone, shall be doomed.
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20 And a sojourner thou shalt not exploit, and thou shalt not subjugate him; for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
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21 Any widow and orphan you shall not afflict.
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22 If afflicting thou shalt afflict him, and crying he shall cry to▵ Me, hearing I will hear his cry;
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23 and My anger shall be··fierce, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.
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24 If thou shalt lend silver to My people, the afflicted with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; you shall not set usury on him.
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25 If taking··as··a··pledge thou shalt take··as··a··pledge thy companion’s raiment, even at the going··in of the sun thou shalt return it to him.
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26 For it◦ is his only covering, it◦ is his raiment for his skin, in which he may lie··down; and it shall be, that he shall cry to▵ Me, and I will hear; for I◦ am gracious.
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27 Thou shalt not revile God, and a chief among◦ thy people thou shalt not curse.
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28 The firstfruits of thy grain, and the firstfruits of thy wine,* thou shalt not delay. The firstborn of thy sons thou shalt give to Me.
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29 So shalt thou do for thine ox, and for thy flock; seven days it shall be with its mother; on◦ the eighth day thou shalt give it to Me.
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30 And you shall be men◦ of holiness to Me; and flesh that is torn in the field you shall not eat; you shall cast it to the dog.
