Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox, a donkey or a sheep, he is to repay double.
New American Standard Bible
If what he stole is actually found alive in his
King James Version
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Holman Bible
If what was stolen—whether ox, donkey, or sheep—is actually found alive in his possession, he must repay double.
A Conservative Version
If the theft is found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
American Standard Version
If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double.
Amplified
If the animal that he stole is found alive in his possession, whether it is ox or donkey or sheep, he shall pay double [for it].
Bible in Basic English
If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.
Darby Translation
If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.
Julia Smith Translation
If finding, the theft shall be found in his hand, from an ox to an ass, to a sheep; living, he shall recompense two.
King James 2000
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or donkey, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If indeed the stolen item is found {in his possession} alive, from ox to donkey to small livestock, he will make double restitution.
Modern King James verseion
If the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether it is an ox, or an ass, or a sheep, he shall restore double.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If the theft be found in his hand alive - whether it be ox, ass or sheep - he shall restore double.
NET Bible
If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.
New Heart English Bible
If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
The Emphasized Bible
If the thing stolen is found in his hand - whether ox or ass or sheep, alive, with two, shall he make restitution.
Webster
If the theft shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
World English Bible
If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
Youngs Literal Translation
if the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether ox, or ass, or sheep -- double he repayeth.
Themes
Bullock (ox) » Laws concerning » Theft of
Oxen » Laws respecting » If stolen to be restored double
Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Restitution
Recompense/restitution » The eye for an eye law
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 22:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Laws About Restitution
3 but if the sun has risen on him, then it is a capital crime in that case. A thief shall certainly make restitution, but if he has nothing, he is to be sold for his theft. 4 If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox, a donkey or a sheep, he is to repay double. 5 "When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard.
Cross References
Exodus 21:16
"Whoever kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him or whether the victim is still in his possession, is certainly to be put to death.
Exodus 22:1
"If a man steals an ox or sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he is to repay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
Exodus 22:7
"When a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and it's stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if found, is to repay double.
Exodus 22:9
"In every ownership dispute involving an ox, donkey, sheep, garment, or anything that is lost where a person says, "This is mine,' the case between the two of them is to come before the judges, and the one that the judges declare guilty is to repay double to his neighbor.
Proverbs 6:31
but when he is discovered, he must restore seven-fold, forfeiting the entire value of his house.
Isaiah 40:2
"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins."
Jeremiah 16:18
First I'll repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the dead bodies of their detestable images, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
Revelation 18:6
Do to her as she herself has done, and give her double for her deeds. Mix a double drink for her in the cup she mixed.