'Declares' in the Bible

“But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’

Concerning every account of transgression--concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property--where [someone] says, "This belongs to me," the matter of the two of them will come to God; whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor.