Exodus 22:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:6

And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

Exodus 21:36

But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

Proverbs 14:4

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

Proverbs 6:31

But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

Jeremiah 2:34

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

Ezekiel 33:15

If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

Numbers 5:7

Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.