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If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought to the sanctuary[a] to learn whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor’s possession. Concerning every account of transgression—concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property—where someone says, “This belongs to me,” the matter of the two of them will come to God;[b] whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor.

10 “‘If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or small livestock or any beast to watch over and it dies or is injured or is captured when there is no one who sees,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:8 Literally “to God” or perhaps “to the judges”
  2. Exodus 22:9 Or “the judges”