Exodus 22:1-4
Laws about Property
22:1 (21:37) “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.
22:2 “If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.
22:3 If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.
22:4 If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.
Leviticus 6:2-5
6:2 “When a person sins and commits a trespass
against the
Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen
in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,
6:3 or has found something lost and denies it and swears falsely
concerning any one of the things that someone might do to sin
–
6:4 when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty,
then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust,
or the lost thing that he had found,
6:5 or anything about which he swears falsely.
He must restore it in full
and add one fifth to it; he must give it to its owner when he is found guilty.
Numbers 5:6-8
5:6 “Tell the Israelites, ‘When
a man or a woman commits any sin that people commit,
thereby breaking faith
with the
Lord, and that person is found guilty,
5:7 then he must confess
his sin that he has committed and must make full reparation,
add one fifth to it, and give it to whomever he wronged.
5:8 But if the individual has no close relative
to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the
Lord for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.
Luke 19:8
19:8 But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give
to the poor, and if
I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”