Księga Wyjścia 22:4

Biblia Warszawska

Jeżeli w jego posiadaniu znaleziono to, co skradł, czy to wołu, czy osła, czy jagnię jeszcze żywe, winien zapłacić podwójnie.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jeźli znaleziona będzie w ręku jego rzecz kradziona, bądź wół, bądź osieł, bądź owca, jeszcze żywe, we dwójnasób wróci.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Jeśli ukradzioną rzecz znajdzie się u niego, czy to będzie wciąż żywe bydlę, osioł czy jagnię, złodziej zapłaci za nie podwójnie.

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Jesliż rzecz kradzioną przy niem znajdą, tak wołu jako i osła, także owcę żywą, w dwójnasób ma wrócić.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Gdy ktoś spasie pole, albo winnicę i puści swoje bydło, aby się pasło na cudzym polu niech zapłaci najlepszym ze swego pola, albo najlepszym ze swej winnicy.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Jeźli znaleziona będzie w ręku jego rzecz kradziona, bądź wół, bądź osieł, bądź owca, jeszcze żywe, we dwójnasób wróci.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jeśli zostaną znalezione w jego ręku skradzione dobra jeszcze żywe, czy to wół, czy osioł, czy owca, zwróci podwójnie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

found: Exodus 21:16

he shall restore double: Exodus 22:1, Exodus 22:7, Exodus 22:9, Proverbs 6:31, Isaiah 40:2, Jeremiah 16:18, Revelation 18:6

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:16 - make Leviticus 6:5 - restore 1 Samuel 12:3 - I will 1 Samuel 12:5 - in my hand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive,.... Or, "in finding be found" i, be plainly and evidently found upon him, before witnesses, as the Targum of Jonathan; so that there is no doubt of the theft; and it is a clear case that he had neither as yet killed nor sold the creature he had stolen, and to could be had again directly, and without any damage well as it would appear by this that he was not an old expert thief, and used to such practices, since he would soon have made away with this theft in some way or another:

whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, or any other creature; and even, as Jarchi thinks, anything else, as raiment, goods, c.

he shall restore double two oxen for an ox, two asses for an ass, and two sheep for a sheep: and, as the same commentator observes, two living ones, and not dead ones, or the price of two living ones: so Solon made theft, by his law, punishable with death, but with a double restitution k; and the reason why here only a double restitution and not fourfold is insisted on, as in Exodus 22:1 is, because there the theft is persisted in, here not; but either the thief being convicted in his own conscience of his evil, makes confession, or, however, the creatures are found with alive, and so more useful being restored, and, being had again sooner, the loss is not quite so great.

i המצא תמצא "inveniendo inventum fuerit", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator. k A. Gell, l. 11. c. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If a thief, in breaking into a dwelling in the night, was slain, the person who slew him did not incur the guilt of blood; but if the same occurred in daylight, the slayer was guilty in accordance with Exodus 21:12. The distinction may have been based on the fact that in the light of day there was a fair chance of identifying and apprehending the thief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 22:4. He shall restore double. — In no case of theft was the life of the offender taken away; the utmost that the law says on this point is, that, if when found breaking into a house, he should be smitten so as to die, no blood should be shed for him; Exodus 22:2. If he had stolen and sold the property, then he was to restore four or fivefold, Exodus 22:1; but if the animal was found alive in his possession, he was to restore double.