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Bible Verses About Restitution: For theft

7 verses · 3 aspects

Verses on For theft

  1. "If someone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he is to pay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

  2. "If a thief caught in the act of breaking in is beaten to death, it is not murder;

  3. unless it happens after sunrise, in which case it is murder. A thief must make restitution; so if he has nothing, he himself is to be sold to make good the loss from the theft.

  4. If what he stole is found alive in his possession, he is to pay double, no matter whether it is an ox, a donkey or a sheep.

  5. A thief is not despised if he steals only to satisfy his appetite when hungry;

  6. but even he, if caught, must pay back sevenfold; he may have to give up all the wealth that he owns.

  7. if the wicked person restores pledged property and returns what he stole, so that he lives by the laws that give life and does not commit evil deeds; then he will live, he will not die.