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If the thief is not found, the owner of the house is to appear before the judges[a] to see[b] whether or not the thief took[c] his neighbor’s property.

“In every ownership dispute[d] involving an ox, donkey, sheep, garment, or anything that is lost where a person says, ‘This is mine,’[e] the case between the two of them is to come before the judges,[f] and the one that the judges[g] declare guilty is to repay double to his neighbor.

10 “When a man gives a donkey, ox, sheep, or any animal to his neighbor for safe keeping, and it dies or is injured or is driven away when no one is looking,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:8 Or God
  2. Exodus 22:8 The Heb. lacks to see
  3. Exodus 22:8 Lit. not he laid his hands on
  4. Exodus 22:9 Lit. matter of transgression
  5. Exodus 22:9 Lit. This is it
  6. Exodus 22:9 Or God
  7. Exodus 22:9 Or God