Exodus 22:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.”

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BSBPD

“If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“if its owner <FI>is<Fi> with it, he doth not repay, --if it <FI>is<Fi> a hired thing, it hath come for its hire.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 22:15 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 34:12Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
  2. Deuteronomy 22:29then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
  3. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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