KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Exodus 22:1–4
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Exodus 22:1
1IF a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
1¶ If a man shal steale an oxe, or a ‖sheepe, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore fiue oxen for an oxe, and *foure sheepe for a sheepe.
- Or, goate.
- 2.Sam. 12.6.
Exodus 22:2
2¶ If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
2¶ If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him.
Exodus 22:3
3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
3If the Sunne be risen vpon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for hee should make full restitution: if he haue nothing, then he shall bee sold for his theft.
Exodus 22:4
4If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
4If the theft be certainely found in his hand aliue, whether it bee oxe or asse, or sheepe, he shall restore double.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:1
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To withdraw or pass privily; to slip along or away unperceived.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To deprive of life; to slay or destroy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To transfer or give over for a price; to betray or surrender, including giving oneself over to evil, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number following three and preceding five.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:2
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Forcibly entering or breaking into a place.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Struck, beaten, wounded, afflicted, or slain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To pour out, spill, cast off, or cause to flow, especially blood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:3
Having risen; stood up, come forth, ascended, or returned from death, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To pour out, spill, cast off, or cause to flow, especially blood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
restitution
The restoration or repayment of what was taken, lost, or owed.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
No thing; not anything; of no value or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Transferred for a price or gave over.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The act of stealing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:4
The act of stealing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Without doubt or question; in truth and fact.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Discovered, obtained, or encountered; or established upon a foundation, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The part of the body at the end of the arm; figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Living; having life; not dead. By extension, continuing in life, force, or activity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Which of two; also introducing alternatives or uncertainty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make restitution or satisfaction for a thing taken, by returning something else, or something of different value. To bring back or recover from lapse, degeneracy, declension or ruin to its former state.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Twice as much or twofold; also to fold or turn over upon itself.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 1
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Open the full verse study6And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
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Open the full verse study8And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
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Open the full verse study31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
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Open the full verse study7Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.
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Open the full verse study1AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
3Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
4Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
5Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
6And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:
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Open the full verse study4Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study43But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
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Open the full verse study19¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
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Open the full verse study27And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
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Open the full verse study2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
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Open the full verse study1WHEN I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
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Open the full verse study14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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Open the full verse study5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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Open the full verse study9They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study2If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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Open the full verse study1THUS saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
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Open the full verse study7And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
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Open the full verse study14¶ And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
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Open the full verse study25But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study1IF a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
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Open the full verse study7¶ If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
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Open the full verse study16¶ And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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Open the full verse study9For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
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Open the full verse study31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
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Open the full verse study6Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
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Open the full verse study18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
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Open the full verse study2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
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