Exo 22:1 “When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and shall slaughter it or sell it, he repays five cattle for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
Exo 22:2 “If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there is no guilt for his bloodshed.
Exo 22:3 “If the sun has risen on him, there is guilt for his bloodshed, he shall certainly repay. If he has not the means, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Exo 22:4 “If the theft is indeed found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he repays double.
Exo 22:5 “When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare, and lets loose his livestock, and it feeds in another man’s field, he repays from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
Exo 22:6 “When fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain, or standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall certainly repay.
Exo 22:7 “When a man gives silver or goods to his neighbour to guard, and it is stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he repays double.
Exo 22:8 “If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought before Elohim to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbour’s goods.
Exo 22:9 “For every matter of transgression, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garment, or for whatever is lost which another claims to be his, let the matter of them both come before Elohim. And whomever Elohim declares wrong repays double to his neighbour.
Exo 22:10 “When a man gives to his neighbour a donkey, or ox, or sheep, or any beast to watch over, and it dies, or is injured, or is driven away while no one is looking,
Exo 22:11 let an oath of יהוה be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbour’s goods. And the owner of it shall accept that, and he does not repay.
Exo 22:12 “But if it is indeed stolen from him, he repays to its owner.
Exo 22:13 “If it is torn to pieces, then let him bring it for evidence, he does not repay what was torn.
Exo 22:14 “And when a man borrows from his neighbour, and it is injured or dies while the owner of it is not present, he shall certainly repay.
Exo 22:15 “But if its owner was with it, he does not repay. If it was hired, he is entitled to the hire.
Laws About Social Justice
Exo 22:16 “And when a man entices a maiden who is not engaged, and lies with her, he shall certainly pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.
Exo 22:17 “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he pays according to the bride-price of maidens.
Exo 22:18 “Do not allow a practiser of witchcraft to live.
Exo 22:19 “Anyone lying with a beast shall certainly be put to death.
Exo 22:20 “He who slaughters to an elohim, except to יהוה only, is put under the ban.
Exo 22:21 “Do not tread down a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.
Exo 22:22 “Do not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Exo 22:23 “If you do afflict them at all – if they cry out to Me at all, I shall certainly hear their cry,
Exo 22:24 and My wrath shall burn and I shall kill you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.
Exo 22:25 “If you do lend silver to any of My people, the poor among you, you are not to be like one that lends on interest to him. Do not lay interest on him.
Exo 22:26 “If you take your neighbour’s garment as a pledge at all, you are to return it to him before the sun goes down.
Exo 22:27 “For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What does he sleep in? And it shall be that when he cries to Me, I shall hear, for I show favour.
Exo 22:28 “Do not revile an elohim, nor curse a ruler of your people.
Exo 22:29 “Do not delay giving your harvest and your vintage. Give Me the first-born of your sons.
Exo 22:30 “Likewise you are to do with your oxen, with your sheep. It is to be with its mother seven days. On the eighth day you give it to Me.
Exo 22:31 “And you are set-apart men to Me, and you do not eat any meat which is torn to pieces in the field, you throw it to the dogs.
Exo 23:1 “Do not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong to be a malicious witness.
Exo 23:2 “Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in a strife so as to turn aside after many, to turn aside what is right.
Exo 23:3 “And do not favour a poor man in his strife.
Exo 23:4 “When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall certainly return it to him.
Exo 23:5 “When you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him.
Exo 23:6 “Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife.
Exo 23:7 “Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right.
Exo 23:8 “And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and twists the words of the righteous.
Exo 23:9 “And do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim.
Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
Exo 23:10 “And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase,
Exo 23:11 but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard.
Exo 23:12 “Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.
Exo 23:13 “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth.
Exo 23:14 “Threea times in the year you are to celebrate a festival to Me: Footnote: aThe Festivals of יהוה are grouped in three, for three different times of the year.
Exo 23:15 “Guard the Festival of Matzot.b Seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the new moon of Aḇiḇ – for in it you came out of Mitsrayim – and do not appear before Me empty-handed; Footnote: bUnleavened Bread.
Exo 23:16 and the Festival of the Harvest,c the first-fruits of your labours which you have sown in the field; and the Festival of the Ingatheringd at the outgoing of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labours from the field. Footnotes: cShaḇuʽoth (Festival of Weeks). dSukkot (Festival of Booths).
Exo 23:17 “Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the Master יהוה.
Exo 23:18 “Do not slaughter the blood of My slaughtering with leavened bread, and the fat of My festival shall not remain until morning.
Exo 23:19 “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
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