Exodus 22 – Studienbibel

1 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.

2 If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.

3 If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.

4 If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.

5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man’s field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make it good.

6 —If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good.

7 —If a man deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him restore double;

8 if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, to see if he has not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods.

9 As to all manner of fraud,—as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which a man says, It is this—the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbor.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see it,

11 an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he has not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make it good.

12 But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make it good unto its owner.

13 If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it as witness: he shall not make good what was torn.

14 —And if a man borrow anything of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good;

15 if the owner of it be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

16 And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 —Ŷou shall not allow a witch to live.

19 —Every one that lies with a beast shall certainly be put to death.

20 —He that sacrifices to any god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.

21 Ŷou shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for you have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

23 If ŷou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry;

24 and my anger will burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives will be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 —If ŷou lend money to my people, the poor with ŷou, ŷou shall not be to him as a usurer: you shall charge him no interest.

26 —If ŷou at all take ŷour neighbor’s garment in pledge, ŷou shall return it to him before the sun goes down;

27 for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what will he lie down? And it will come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. [Apg 23,5]

28 Ŷou shall not revile the judges, nor curse a prince among ŷour people.

29 —Ŷou shall not delay the fulness of ŷour threshing-floor and the outflow of ŷour winepress. The firstborn of ŷour sons shall ŷou give unto me.

30 Likewise shall ŷou do with ŷour calf, with ŷour sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day ŷou shall give it me.

31 —And you shall be holy men unto me; and you shall not eat flesh torn in the field: you shall cast it to the dog.