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Bible Verses About Trustee: Mosaic law concerning

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Verses on Mosaic law concerning

  1. If a man deliver money, or any vessel unto his friend to keep, and they be stolen away from him that received them: if the thief be found, he shall restore double:

  2. If the thief be not known, the master of the house shall be brought to the gods, and shall swear that he did not lay his hand upon his neighbour's goods,

  3. To do any fraud, either in ox, or in ass, or sheep, or raiment, or any thing that may bring damage: the cause of both parties shall come to the gods: and if they give judgment, he shall restore double to his neighbour.

  4. If a man deliver ass, ox, sheep, or any beast, to his neighbour's custody, and it die, or be hurt, or be taken by enemies, and no man saw it:

  5. There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.

  6. But if it were taken away by stealth, he shall make the loss good to the owner.

  7. If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.

  8. 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;

  9. 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:

  10. Being convicted of the offence, he shall restore

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

  12. Moreover for his sin he shall offer a ram without blemish out of the flock: and shall give it to the priest, according to the estimation and measure of the offence.

  13. And he shall pray for him before the Lord: and he shall have forgiveness for every thing in doing of which he bath sinned.