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Exodus 22:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 22:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 “If a fire breaks out and it spreads to the thornbushes so that it burns the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself, the person who started the fire must make restitution.[a]
6 “If someone entrusts his neighbor with silver or goods for safekeeping, and there is a robbery in that house and the thief is caught, the thief shall pay back double. 7 If the thief is not caught, the master of the house is to be brought before the judges to swear that he has not laid hands on the property of his neighbor.
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- Exodus 22:5 Some translations are more definitive in describing the quality of the payback (i.e., it should err on the side of being generous).