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“In every ownership dispute[a] involving an ox, donkey, sheep, garment, or anything that is lost where a person says, ‘This is mine,’[b] the case between the two of them is to come before the judges,[c] and the one that the judges[d] 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, 11 the two of them are to take an oath in the Lord’s presence that the accused[e] has not taken[f] his neighbor’s property. Its owner is to accept this, and the neighbor[g] is not to make restitution.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:9 Lit. matter of transgression
  2. Exodus 22:9 Lit. This is it
  3. Exodus 22:9 Or God
  4. Exodus 22:9 Or God
  5. Exodus 22:11 Lit. that he
  6. Exodus 22:11 Lit. not laid his hands on
  7. Exodus 22:11 Lit. he