Exodus 22:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:28 : 28 "You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
  • Deut 16:18 : 18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
  • Exod 21:6 : 6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.
  • Exod 22:9 : 9 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
  • Deut 17:8-9 : 8 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose; 9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
  • Deut 19:17-18 : 17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days; 18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
  • 1 Chr 23:4 : 4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;
  • Ps 82:1 : 1 > God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:1-7
    7 verses
    87%

    1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

    2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

    3If the sun has risen on him, there shall be guilt of bloodshed for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

    5"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

    6"If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

    7"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.

  • Exod 22:9-15
    7 verses
    82%

    9For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, 'This is mine,' the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

    10"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

    11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner of it.

    13If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

    14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, the owner of it not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

    15If the owner of it is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.

  • Prov 6:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30Men don't despise a thief, If he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

    31But if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

  • Lev 6:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2"If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

    3or has found that which was lost, and dealt falsely therein, and swearing to a lie; in any of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;

    4then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

  • Deut 22:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.

    2If your brother isn't near to you, or if you don't know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.

    3So shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.

  • Deut 24:7
    74%

    7If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • 1 Kgs 8:31
    74%

    31If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid on him to cause him to swear, and he come [and] swear before your altar in this house;

  • Prov 22:27
    72%

    27If you don't have means to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

  • Deut 19:18
    72%

    18and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

  • 2 Chr 6:22
    72%

    22If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

  • Zech 5:4
    71%

    4I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

    2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:

  • Deut 25:1
    71%

    1If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and [the judges] judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

  • Luke 12:39
    71%

    39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

  • Jer 22:13
    71%

    13Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;

  • Matt 24:43
    71%

    43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

  • Lev 24:19
    70%

    19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

  • Exod 21:16
    70%

    16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Exod 20:15
    70%

    15"You shall not steal.

  • Jer 7:5
    70%

    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

  • Exod 21:13
    70%

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

  • Exod 21:36
    70%

    36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Exod 22:26
    70%

    26If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down,

  • Deut 22:20
    70%

    20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;

  • Deut 19:14
    69%

    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

  • Ezek 18:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

    8he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,

  • Deut 5:19
    69%

    19"Neither shall you steal.

  • Prov 21:7
    69%

    7The violence of the wicked will drive them away, Because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Exod 21:19
    69%

    19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

  • Deut 24:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.

    12If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;