Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
He shall
Five oxen
Bible References
He shall
Numbers 5:7
and they have confessed their sin which they have done, then he hath restored his guilt in its principal, and its fifth is adding to it, and hath given it to him in reference to whom he hath been guilty.
2 Samuel 12:6
and the ewe-lamb he doth repay fourfold, because that he hath done this thing, and because that he had no pity.'
Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
Luke 19:8
And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, 'Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'
Five oxen
Proverbs 14:4
Without oxen a stall is clean, And great is the increase by the power of the ox.