Exodus 22:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall pay double.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ If the beast which he stole is found in his possession alive, whether it is ox or ass or sheep, he shall restore double.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.

Common English Bible

⁴ If an animal (whether ox, donkey, or sheep) is found alive in the thief’s possession, he must pay back double.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ If whatever he stole should be found with him, a living thing, either an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, he shall repay double.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.

Exodus 22:4 Cross References

Exodus 21:16

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22:1

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

Exodus 22:5

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.

Exodus 22:7

If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.

Exodus 22:9

For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith, This is it, the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbour.

Proverbs 6:31

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

Jeremiah 16:18

And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have polluted my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and have filled mine inheritance with their abominations.

Leviticus 6:5

or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto: unto him to whom it appertaineth shall he give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

Revelation 18:6

Render unto her even as she rendered, and double unto her the double according to her works: in the cup which she mingled, mingle unto her double.

1 Samuel 12:5

And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they said, He is witness.