Exodus 22:4

If the stolen item should in fact be found ¹  alive in his possession, ²  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ³ 

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession— whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

If someone steals an ox or a donkey or a sheep and it is recovered alive, then the thief must pay double the value.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

If caught red-handed with the stolen goods, and the ox or donkey or lamb is still alive, the thief pays double.

SABDAweb Exo 22:4

If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

bibleoremus Exo 22:4

When the animal, whether ox or donkey or sheep, is found alive in the thief’s possession, the thief shall pay double.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

If the stolen item should in fact be found ¹  alive in his possession, ²  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ³ 

¹ tn The construction uses a Niphal infinitive absolute and a Niphal imperfect: if it should indeed be found. Gesenius says that in such conditional clauses the infinitive absolute has less emphasis, but instead emphasizes the condition on which some consequence depends (see GKC 342-43 §113.o).

² tn Heb “in his hand.”

³ sn He must pay back one for what he took, and then one for the penalty – his loss as he was inflicting a loss on someone else.