Bible Verses About Theft

Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, so Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father,

"Do not steal.

"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.

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

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.

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.

"If a person causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets his animal loose to graze in someone else's field, he is to make restitution from the best produce of his own field and vineyard.

"If a fire is started and spreads to thorns, so that stacked grain, standing grain or a field is destroyed, the person who lit it must make restitution.

"If a person entrusts a neighbor with money or goods, and they are stolen from the trustee's house, then, if the thief is found, he must pay double.

But if the thief is not found, then the trustee must state before God that he did not take the person's goods himself.

Do not oppress or rob your neighbor; specifically, you are not to keep back the wages of a hired worker all night until morning.

when I saw there with the spoil a beautiful robe from Shin'ar, five pounds of silver shekels and a one-and-a-quarter-pound wedge of gold, I really wanted them. So I took them. You will find them hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

So the men of Sh'khem sent out men to ambush him on the mountaintops. They robbed everyone who went past them, and Avimelekh was told about it.

He said to his mother, "You know the 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you - you pronounced a curse about it, and you told me about it? Well, the money is with me. I took it." His mother said, "May ADONAI bless my son,"

The tents of robbers prosper, [the homes of] those who anger God are secure, those who carry their gods in their hands.

The murderer rises with the light to kill the poor and needy; while at night he is like a thief.

When you see a thief, you join up with him, you throw in your lot with adulterers,

When you do such things, should I stay silent? You may have thought I was just like you; but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.

Even when the cords of the wicked close around me, I don't forget your Torah.

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to act justly.

Rich and poor have this in common -ADONAI made them both.

The accomplice of a thief hates himself; he hears himself put under oath but discloses nothing.

Your leaders are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They give no justice to orphans, the widow's complaint doesn't catch their attention.

to deprive the impoverished of justice and rob my people's poor of their rights, looting widows and preying on orphans!

Just as a thief is ashamed when caught, so is the house of Isra'el ashamed - they, their kings, their leaders, their cohanim and their prophets,