21:31 Whether he have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according
to this judgment shall it be done unto him.
21:32 If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give
unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and
not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
21:34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the
owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, that he die; then they shall
sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they
shall divide.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and
his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the
dead shall be his own.
22:1 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.
22:2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there
shall no blood be shed for him.
22:3 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.
22:4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be
ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
22:5 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.
22:6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn,
or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that
kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
22:7 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.
22:8 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.
22:9 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 whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his
neighbour.
22:10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep,
or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man
seeing it:
22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath
not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall
accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
22:12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the
owner thereof.
22:13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he
shall not make good that which was torn.
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