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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 shall be found breaking through, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.³ If the sun shall have 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 shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make restitution.⁶ If fire shall break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field shall be consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

⁷ If a man shall deliver to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief shall be found, let him pay double.⁸ If the thief shall not be found, then the master of the house shall be brought to the judges, [to see] whether he hath put his hand to his neighbor'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; [and] he whom the judges shall condemn, shall pay double to his neighbor.¹⁰ If a man shall deliver to his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast to keep; and it shall die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing [it]:¹¹ [Then] shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept of it, and he shall not make restitution.¹² And if it shall be stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.¹³ If it shall be torn in pieces; [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.¹⁴ And if a man shall borrow [aught] of his neighbor, and it shall be hurt, or die, the owner of it [being] not with it, he shall surely make [it] good.¹⁵ [But] if the owner of it shall [be] with it, he shall not make [it] good: if it [be] a hired [thing], it came for his hire.

¹⁶ And if a man shall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.¹⁷ If her father shall utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dower of virgins.¹⁸ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.¹⁹ Whoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.²⁰ He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.²¹ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.²² Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.²³ If thou shalt afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry:²⁴ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

²⁵ If thou shalt lend money to [any of] my people [that is] poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.²⁶ If thou shalt at all take thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it to him by the setting of the sun.²⁷ For that [is] his only covering, it [is] his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth to me, that I will hear; for I [am] gracious.²⁸ Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.²⁹ Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the first-born of thy sons shalt thou give to me.³⁰ Likewise shalt thou do with thy oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it to me.³¹ And ye shall be holy men to me: neither shall ye eat [any] flesh [that is] torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.