New English Translation

Exodus 22:10-21 New English Translation (NET)

10. If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

11. then there will be an oath to the Lord between the two of them, that he has not laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods, and its owner will accept this, and he will not have to pay.

12. But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

13. If it is torn in pieces, then he will bring it for evidence, and he will not have to pay for what was torn.

14. “If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

15. If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

16. “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

17. If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.

18. “You must not allow a sorceress to live.

19. “Whoever has sexual relations with a beast must surely be put to death.

20. “Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone must be utterly destroyed.

21. “You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.