Exodus 22:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ If the owner was present, there shall be no restitution; if it was hired, only the hiring fee is due.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But if the owner is with it [when the damage is done], the borrower shall not make it good. If it is a hired thing, the damage is included in its hire.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁵ If the owner was present, no payment needs to be made. If the animal was hired, only the fee for hiring the animal is due.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ But if the owner was present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it had been brought for hired work.

Exodus 22:15 Cross References

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there were no wages for people or for animals, nor was there any safety from the foe for those who went out or came in, and I set them all against one another.

Exodus 22:14

“When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.

Exodus 22:16

“When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

Genesis 34:12

Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the young woman to be my wife.”

Deuteronomy 22:29

the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her, he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.