Exodus 22:1-15: If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill
it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for
a sheep. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him,
there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution;
if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be
certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep;
he shall restore double. 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. If fire break out, and catch in
thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field,
be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
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, let him pay double. If the
thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto
the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's
goods. For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for
sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another
challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the
judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his
neighbour. If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a
sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no
man seeing it: Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that
he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it
shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. And if it be stolen
from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. If it be
torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make
good that which was torn. And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour,
and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall
surely make it good. But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not
make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.