Exodus 22 (NET)

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Exodus 22:1¹(21:37) “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Sam 12:6 Luke 19:8 Prov 6:31 Num 5:7 Lev 6:1-6 Prov 14:4

Exodus 22:2²“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 24:43 Matt 6:19-20 Num 35:27 1 Thess 5:2 Hos 7:1 Job 24:14 Job 30:5 Joel 2:9

Exodus 22:3³If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 21:2 Isa 50:1 Judg 10:7 Judg 2:14 Matt 18:25

Exodus 22:4⁴If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:1 Exod 22:7 Exod 21:16 Exod 22:9 Prov 6:31 Rev 18:6 Jer 16:18 Isa 40:2

Exodus 22:5⁵“If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 21:34 Exod 22:12 Exod 22:3 Job 20:18

Exodus 22:6⁶“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:9 2 Sam 14:30-31 Exod 21:33-34 Exod 22:12 Judg 15:4-5

Exodus 22:7⁷“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:4 Prov 6:30-31

Exodus 22:8⁸If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 22:28 Deut 16:18 Exod 21:6 1 Chr 23:4 Deut 17:8-9 Deut 19:17-18 Exod 22:9 Ps 82:1

Exodus 22:9⁹In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 25:1 Exod 22:4 Exod 23:6-8 Num 5:6-7 1 Kgs 8:31 2 Chr 19:10 Luke 17:3-4 Matt 18:35 Deut 16:18-19 Exod 18:21-22

Exodus 22:10¹⁰If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Tim 1:12 Gen 39:8 Luke 12:48 Luke 16:11

Exodus 22:11¹¹then there will be an oath to the Lord between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 6:16 1 Kgs 2:42-43 Exod 22:8 Exod 23:1 Lev 5:1 Lev 6:3 Prov 30:9

Exodus 22:12¹²But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 31:39 Exod 22:7

Exodus 22:13¹³If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 3:12 Ezek 4:14 Mic 5:8 Nah 2:12

Exodus 22:14¹⁴“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 23:19-20 Deut 15:2 Exod 21:34 Lev 24:18 Luke 6:35 Exod 22:11 Matt 5:42 Ps 37:21 Neh 5:4

Exodus 22:15¹⁵If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 8:10

Exodus 22:16¹⁶“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and goes to bed with her, he must surely pay the marriage price for her to be his wife.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 22:28-29 Gen 34:2-4

Exodus 22:17¹⁷If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 34:12 1 Sam 18:25 Deut 22:29 Deut 7:3-4 Gen 23:16

Exodus 22:18¹⁸“You must not allow a sorceress to live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 20:27 Deut 18:10-11 1 Sam 28:3 Lev 20:6 Lev 19:31 Rev 22:15 Isa 19:3 Lev 19:26 Gal 5:20 1 Sam 28:9

Exodus 22:19¹⁹“Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 27:21 Lev 18:23 Lev 20:15-16 Lev 18:25

Exodus 22:20²⁰“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 17:2-5 Deut 18:20 Num 25:7-8 Deut 13:1-15 Num 25:2-4 Josh 23:15-16 Num 21:3

Exodus 22:21²¹“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 10:19 Exod 23:9 Lev 19:33 Zech 7:10 Deut 23:7 Exod 20:2 Jer 7:6 Lev 25:35 Mal 3:5 Deut 15:15

Exodus 22:22²²“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 24:17 Isa 1:17 Isa 1:23 Deut 10:18 Deut 27:19 Ezek 22:7 Isa 10:2 Jas 1:27 Zech 7:10 Ps 94:6-7

Exodus 22:23²³If you afflict them in any way and they cry to me, I will surely hear their cry,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 34:28 Luke 18:7 Ps 10:17-18 Ps 18:6 Deut 15:9 Jas 5:4 Job 35:9 Ps 145:19 Ps 146:7-9 Deut 24:15

Exodus 22:24²⁴and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 109:9 Jer 15:8 Lam 5:3 Ps 69:24 Ps 76:7 Ps 78:63-64 Ps 90:11 Heb 10:31 Jer 18:21 Job 27:13-15

Exodus 22:25²⁵“If you lend money to any of my people who are needy among you, do not be like a moneylender to him; do not charge him interest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 25:35-37 Ps 15:5 Deut 23:19-20 Ezek 18:8 Neh 5:7 Prov 28:8 Ezek 18:17 2 Kgs 4:1 2 Kgs 4:7 Ezek 18:13

Exodus 22:26²⁶If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 20:16 Amos 2:8 Deut 24:6 Deut 24:10-13 Deut 24:17 Ezek 18:16 Ezek 18:7 Job 24:3 Prov 22:27 Ezek 33:15

Exodus 22:27²⁷for it is his only covering—it is his garment for his body. What else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 34:6 2 Chr 30:9 Exod 22:23 Ps 136:10-11 Ps 34:6 Ps 72:12 Ps 86:15 Exod 2:23-24 Isa 19:20

Exodus 22:28²⁸“You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 23:5 Eccl 10:20 Jude 1:8 Exod 21:17 Exod 22:8-9 1 Sam 24:10 1 Sam 24:6 1 Sam 26:9 2 Pet 2:10 Ps 138:1

Exodus 22:29²⁹“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 13:2 Exod 23:16 Deut 26:2-10 Exod 23:19 Jas 1:18 Prov 3:9-10 Rom 8:23 Exod 13:12 Exod 34:19 Matt 6:33

Exodus 22:30³⁰You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Lev 22:27 Deut 15:19 Exod 13:12 Lev 12:3

Exodus 22:31³¹“You will be holy people to me; you must not eat any meat torn by animals in the field. You must throw it to the dogs.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:14 Lev 19:2 1 Pet 1:15-16 Acts 15:20 Deut 14:21 Ezek 44:31 Lev 22:8 Acts 10:14 Exod 19:5-6 Lev 11:44-45