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“‘If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution. 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.

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Footnotes

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