Exodus 22:8

English Standard Version 2016

If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:18

“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Exodus 22:28

“You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.

Psalm 82:1

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

1 Chronicles 23:4

“Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the Lord, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,

Exodus 22:9

For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

1 Kings 8:31

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,