Exodus 22:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ “When someone causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets livestock loose to graze in someone else’s field, restitution shall be made from the best in the owner’s field or vineyard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution of the best of his own field or his own vineyard.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

Common English Bible

⁵ When someone lets an animal loose to eat in another person’s field and causes the field or vineyard to be stripped of its crop, the owner must pay them back with the best from his own field or vineyard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ If there is any damage to a field or a vineyard, when he has released his cattle to pasture on the land of a stranger, he shall repay the best of what he has in his own field, or in his own vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

Exodus 22:5 Cross References

Job 20:18

They will give back the fruit of their toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of their trading they will get no enjoyment.

Exodus 21:34

the owner of the pit shall make restitution, giving money to its owner but keeping the dead animal.

Exodus 22:12

But if it was stolen, restitution shall be made to its owner.

Exodus 22:3

but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred.) The thief shall make full restitution or, if unable to do so, shall be sold for the theft.

Exodus 22:4

When the animal, whether ox or donkey or sheep, is found alive in the thief’s possession, the thief shall pay double.

Exodus 22:6

“When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire shall make full restitution.

Numbers 16:14

It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”