Exodus 22:4

If a man make waste a field or vineyard, or send his cattle to consume another’s field, the best of his field and the best of his vineyard he shall restore.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

In Context

3If the thing stolen, from an ox to an ass, be found in his possession, they being alive, he shall restore two for one.

5If fire breaks out, and it find thorns, so that sheaves or standing corn or the field be consumed, he who kindled the fire paying shall pay.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:1If a thief be found breaking through, and he be smitten and die, there shall be no blood due to him.

Exodus 22:9If a man deliver to his neighbour an ass or an ox or a lamb or any cattle to keep, and it die, or be injured, or be carried away, no one seeing;

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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