Exodus 22:14
Good News Translation
"If anyone borrows an animal from someone else and it is injured or dies when its owner is not present, he must pay for it.

New Revised Standard Version
When someone borrows an animal from another and it is injured or dies, the owner not being present, full restitution shall be made.

Contemporary English Version
Suppose you borrow an animal from a neighbor, and it gets injured or dies while the neighbor isn't around. Then you must replace it.

New American Bible
When someone borrows an animal from a neighbor, if it is maimed or dies while the owner is not present, that one must make restitution.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.

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Deuteronomy 15:2 Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 23:19,20 Thou shalt not lend to thy brother money to usury, nor corn, nor any other thing: . . .

Nehemiah 5:4 And others said: Let us borrow money for the king's tribute, and let us give up our fields and vineyards:

Psalm 37:21 The sinner shall borrow, and not pay again; but the just sheweth mercy and shall give.

Matthew 5:42 Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

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Exodus 22:11 There shall be an oath between them, that he did not put forth his hand to his neighbour's goods: and the owner shall accept of the oath, and he shall not be compelled to make restitution.

Exodus 21:34 The owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts: and that which is dead shall be his own.

Leviticus 24:18 He that killeth a beast, shall make it good that is to say, shall give beast for beast.

Context
Property Laws
13If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution. 14If a man borrow of his neighbour any of these things, and it be hurt or die, the owner not being present, he shall be obliged to make restitution.15But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:13
If it were eaten by a beast, let him bring to him that which was slain, and he shall not make restitution.

Exodus 22:15
But if the owner be present, he shall not make restitution, especially if it were hired, and came for the hire of his work.

Exodus 22:13
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