punishment for stealing

¹The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ²The soul who will have sinned, and, despising the Lord, will have denied to his neighbor the deposit which he had entrusted to his safekeeping, or who will have extorted anything by force, or who will have made a false accusation, ³or who will have found a lost thing and then also withheld it by swearing falsely, or who will have done any other of the many things by which men usually sin: ⁴being convicted of the offense, he shall restore ⁵all that he wanted to obtain by fraud, the whole plus an additional fifth part, to the owner against whom he brought the damage.

¹“If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep.

¹⁶Whoever will have stolen a man and sold him, having been convicted of the crime, shall be put to death.

³⁰Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul. ³¹Also, if he is apprehended, he shall repay sevenfold and hand over all the substance of his house.

³But if he did this when the sun was risen, he has perpetrated a homicide, and he shall die. If he does not have the means to make restitution for the theft, he shall be sold. ⁴If whatever he stole should be found with him, a living thing, either an ox, or a donkey, or a sheep, he shall repay double.

¹“If anyone will have stolen an ox or a sheep, and if he kills it or sells it, then he will restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep. ²If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

²⁴an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot,

¹Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God. ²And they have desired fields and have taken them by violence, and they have stolen houses. And they have made false accusations against a man and his house, a man and his inheritance. ³For this reason, thus says the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family, from which you will not steal away your necks. And you will not walk in arrogance, because this is a most wicked time. ⁴In that day, a parable will be taken up about you, and a song will be sung with sweetness, saying: “We have been devastated by depopulation.” The fate of my people has been altered. How can he withdraw from me, when he might be turned back, he who might tear apart our country? ⁵Because of this, there will be for you no casting of the cord of fate in the assembly of the Lord.

⁴I will bring it forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it will approach to the house of the thief, and to the house of him who swears falsely by my name, and it will remain in the midst of his house and will consume it, with its wood and its stones.

¹⁵You shall not steal.

¹The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Joatham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ²Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me. ³An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood. ⁴Woe to a sinful nation, a people burdened by iniquity, a wicked offspring, accursed children. They have abandoned the Lord. They have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel. They been taken away backwards. ⁵For what reason shall I continue to strike you, as you increase transgressions? The entire head is feeble, and the entire heart is grieving. ⁶From the sole of the foot, even to the top of the head, there is no soundness within. Wounds and bruises and swelling sores: these are not bandaged, nor treated with medicine, nor soothed with oil.