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“If he is found with the animals he robbed and they are still alive, whether they be oxen or donkeys or sheep, he is to repay double.

Offenses Regarding Compensation. “If someone uses a field or a vineyard as a pasture and lets his animals graze in someone else’s field, then he must repay that person with the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.

“If a fire breaks out and it spreads to the thornbushes so that it burns the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself, the person who started the fire must make restitution.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 22:5 Some translations are more definitive in describing the quality of the payback (i.e., it should err on the side of being generous).