Exodus 22:15

if its owner [is] with it, he does not repay—if it [is] a hired thing, it has come for its hire.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14And when a man asks for [anything] from his neighbor, and it has been hurt or has died—its owner not being with it—he certainly repays;

16And when a man entices a virgin who [is] not betrothed, and has lain with her, he certainly endows her to himself for a wife;

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Cross References

Genesis 34:12multiply on me dowry and gift exceedingly, and I give as you say to me, and give to me the young person for a wife.”

Zechariah 8:10For before those days there has been no hiring of man, || Indeed, a hiring of beasts there is none; And to him who is going out, || And to him who is coming in, || There is no peace because of the adversary, || And I send all men—each against his neighbor.

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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