Exodus 22:9 New English Translation
9 In all cases of illegal possessions,[a] whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’[b] the matter of the two of them will come before the judges,[c] and the one whom[d] the judges declare guilty[e] must repay double to his neighbor.
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- Exodus 22:9 tn Heb “concerning every kind [thing] of trespass.”
- Exodus 22:9 tn The text simply has “this is it” (הוּא זֶה, huʾ zeh).
- Exodus 22:9 tn Again, or “God.”
- Exodus 22:9 tn This kind of clause Gesenius calls an independent relative clause—it does not depend on a governing substantive but itself expresses a substantival idea (GKC 445-46 §138.e).
- Exodus 22:9 tn The verb means “to be guilty” in Qal; in Hiphil it would have a declarative sense, because a causative sense would not possibly fit.
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