Exodus 22:14

But if the owner be with it, he shall not make compensation: but if it be a + 22:14 Qu. If the borrower be a hireling, he shall have the ruined beast instead of his hire?hired thing, there shall be a compensation to him instead of his hire.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And if any one borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be wounded or die or be carried away, and the owner of it be not with it, he shall make compensation.

15And if any one deceive a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her for a wife to himself.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:11And if it be stolen from him, he shall make compensation to the owner.

Deuteronomy 15:2And this is the ordinance of the release: thou shalt remit every private debt which thy neighbour owes thee, and thou shalt not ask payment of it from thy brother; for it has been called a release to the Lord thy God.

Nehemiah 5:4And some said, We have borrowed money for the king's tributes:—our fields, and our vineyards, and houses are pledged.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:8-16

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. 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. 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;… Read the whole commentary →

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