Bible Verses About Damages and Compensation

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

If a man open a pit, and dig one, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall into it,

The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression;

Or shall find a thing lost, and denying it, shall also swear falsely, or shall do any other of the many things, wherein men are wont to sin:

Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

All that he would have gotten by fraud, in the principal, and the fifth part besides, to the owner, whom he wronged.

If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.