Exodus Chapter 22 verse 4 Holy Bible
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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If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.
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If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double.
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If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
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If the theft shall be certainly found in his hand alive, whether an ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
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If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.
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if the theft is certainly found in his hand alive, whether ox, or ass, or sheep -- double he repayeth.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - If the theft be certainly found in his hand. If he be caught in flagrante delicto, with the thing stolen in his possession, "whether it be ox, or ass, or small cattle," he shall restore double. The law of theft in the Mosaic legislation is altogether of a mild character, as compared with the Roman, or even with the English law, until the present century. Double restitution was a sort of "retaliation" - it involved a man losing the exact amount which he had expected to gain CHAPTER 22:2-6
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) If the theft be certainly found in his hand.--If he had not converted it, consumed it, or, if it were an animal, killed it, then, instead of the four-fold or five-fold restitution of Exodus 22:1, a restoration of double was to suffice.
