Exodus 22:3

if the sun has risen on him, blood [is] for him, he certainly repays; if he has nothing, then he has been sold for his theft;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood for him;

4if the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether ox, or donkey, or sheep—he repays double.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:2When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;

Judges 2:14And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He gives them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He sells them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, and they have not been able to stand before their enemies anymore;

Isaiah 40:2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, || That her warfare has been completed, || That her punishment has been accepted, || That she has received from the hand of YHWH || Double for all her sins.

Matthew 18:25and he having nothing to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:2-7

Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 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. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 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. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he… Read the whole commentary →

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