When a man steals an ox or a lamb, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall repay five cattle for the ox and four sheep for the lamb.
If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there is no bloodguilt for him.
If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt for him. He shall surely repay; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
If the stolen animal is actually found alive in his hand — from ox to donkey to lamb — he shall repay double.
When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed, and lets his beast loose, and it grazes in another man’s field, he shall repay from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
When fire breaks out and catches in thorns, and stacked grain, or standing grain, or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire shall surely repay.
When a man gives his neighbor silver or goods to keep, and it is stolen from the man’s house — if the thief is found, he shall repay double.
If the thief is not found, then the owner of the house shall be brought near to God, to determine whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s property.
In every matter of wrongdoing — over an ox, over a donkey, over a lamb, over a garment, over anything lost of which one says, “This is it” — the case of both parties shall come before God. Whomever God declares in the wrong shall repay double to his neighbor.
When a man gives his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a lamb, or any beast to keep, and it dies, or is injured, or is carried off with no one seeing —
an oath of the LORD shall be between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not repay.
But if it is indeed stolen from him, he shall repay its owner.
If it is torn to pieces, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not repay for what was torn.
And when a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall surely repay.
If its owner is with it, he shall not repay. If it was hired, it came for its hire.
Laws of Social Responsibility
And when a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay her bride-price to make her his wife.
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall weigh out silver according to the bride-price of virgins.
You shall not let a sorceress live.
Whoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to the gods — and not to the LORD alone — shall be devoted to destruction.
And you shall not wrong a sojourner, and you shall not oppress him — for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
You shall not afflict any widow or orphan.
If you afflict them at all — for if they cry out to me at all, I will surely hear their cry,
and my anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall become widows, and your sons orphans.
If you lend silver to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not be like a creditor to him; you shall not lay interest on him.
If you take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge at all, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down —
for it is his only covering; it is his garment for his skin. In what else shall he lie down? And it shall be, when he cries out to me, that I will hear — for I am gracious.
You shall not curse God, and you shall not curse a leader among your people.
You shall not delay the fullness of your harvest and the flow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.
So you shall do with your ox and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.
And you shall be holy men to me. And you shall not eat flesh torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dog.
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