Exodus 22:15

If the owner thereof bee by, hee shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 if a man borow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els die, the owner thereof not being by, he shall surely make it good.

16And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:12Aske of me abundantly both dowrie and giftes, and I will giue as ye appoint me, so that ye giue me the maide to wife.

Zechariah 8:10For before these dayes there was no hire for man nor any hire for beast, neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, euery one against his neighbour.

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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