Know the Text⌕

Reading as Seek: to learn Scripture and its teachings. Same facts, warmer framing.

Read›Exodus›Chapter 22

Property Laws

Exodus 22:15

In 11 translations

BSB
If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.
KJV
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
WEB
If its owner is with it, he shall not make it good. If it is a leased thing, it came for its lease.
ASV
If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.
LSV
if its owner [is] with it, he does not repay—if it [is] a hired thing, it has come for its hire.
YLT
if its owner [is] with it, he doth not repay, — if it [is] a hired thing, it hath come for its hire.
DBY
if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire.
DRC
But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired and came for the hire of his work.
GNV
If the owner thereof bee by, hee shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
JPS22:14
If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loseth his hire.
LXXE22:14
But if the owner be with it, he shall not make compensation: but if it be a hired thing, there shall be a compensation to him instead of his hire.Qu. If the borrower be a hireling, he shall have the ruined beast instead of his hire?

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC22:14
אִם־בְּעָלָ֥יו עִמּ֖וֹ לֹ֣א יְשַׁלֵּ֑ם אִם־שָׂכִ֣יר ה֔וּא בָּ֖א בִּשְׂכָרֽוֹ׃KJV:Exod.22.15
LXX-Br22:14
Ἐὰν δὲ ὁ κύριος ᾖ μετʼ αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἀποτίσει· ἐὰν δὲ μισθωτὸς ᾖ, ἔσται αὐτῷ ἀντὶ τοῦ μισθοῦ αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 22:14 in some Bibles
  • 22:15 in most Bibles

Report a problem

Found something wrong, unsourced or unfair? Tell us; every report is read. Please don’t include personal information.

↑