Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft. 4 If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double. 5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man's field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make it good.
Cross References
Exodus 21:16
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.
Exodus 22:1
If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.
Exodus 22:7
If a man 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 restore double;
Exodus 22:9
As to all manner of fraud, as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which a man saith, It is this the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour.
Proverbs 6:31
and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
Jeremiah 16:18
But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance.
Revelation 18:6
Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double.