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| [[File:moses.jpg|right|thumb|[[Moses]], [[Jesus]], and [[Elijah]] seem to have been in agreement and there seems to be a commonality or harmony in the [[Song of Moses]] and the [[Song of the Lamb]].<Br>[[Ten Commandments]]<Br> ]]
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| 1 ''restore five oxen... and four sheep''
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| 2 right to defend with force.
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| 3 ''restitution... for his theft''. Hard labor
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| 4 ''restore double'' for possession if stolen goods.
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| 5 feed in another man's field... shall he make restitution.
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| 6 ... kindled the fire shall surely make restitution. 
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| 7 ''if the thief be found, let him pay double.''
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| 8 ''thief be not found... the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>...''
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| 9 ''all manner of trespass...  both parties shall come before the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>; and whom the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.''
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| 10-14 Liability for goods if there is fault including things are borrowed.
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| 15 liability if a thing is hired.
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| 16-17 ''entice a maid'' he may be held financially responsible.  "he shall surely((מָהֹ֛ר)MemHeyReish māhōr)<Ref name="mahar">{{04117}}</Ref> endow((יִמְהָרֶ֥נָּה)'''Yod'''MemHeyReish'''NunHey''' yimhārennāh)<Ref name="mahar">{{04117}}</Ref> her..."
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| 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch(məḵaššêp̄āh (מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה) [[Mem]]KufShinPei[[Hey]])<Ref name="kashaph">{{03784}}</Ref> to live.(ṯəḥayyeh (תְחַיֶּֽה) [[Tav]]ChetYodHey)<Ref name="chayah">{{02421}}</Ref> <Br>(מכשפה לא תחיה׃ ס) "In every form of witchcraft there is an appeal to a power not acting in subordination to the divine law." Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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| 19 Beastiality ''put to death'' (yūmāṯ mō·wṯ (מ֥וֹת  יוּמָֽת׃) YodVavMemTav MemVavTav)<Ref name="muwth">{{04191}}</Ref> which can mean "to die, perish (of a nation)" and even "to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)". Cut off from ''His altars of [[social welfare]]''. They cannot eat of the [[table]] of the [[faithful]].
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| 20 If someone ''sacrificeth unto any [[god]]'' (double dipping) ''utterly destroyed''.<Ref name="charam">{{02763}}</Ref> can mean "'''to ban''', devote", "to prohibit (for common use), ban", and even "to split" away. Again they are banned from eating at the [[table]] or [[altars]] of the [[faithful]]. It is not about ''destroying'' nor ''putting to death'' people. It is about a [[daily ministration]] of [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] and not the [[One purse]] of the [[socialist]] [[city-state]] like [[Sodom]] or when you were in the [[bondage of Egypt]] where you  ''sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full;''<Ref>[[Exodus 16]]:3  And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.</Ref> which are the [[cities of blood]] where "their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood".<Ref>[[Proverbs 1]]:10  My son, if sinners entice thee, [[consent]] thou not. 11  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have [[one purse]]: 15  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18  And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19  So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</Ref>
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| 21 not "vex a stranger, nor oppress" like Egypt.
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| 22-23 "not afflict any widow, or fatherless child" so they [[cry out|cry]];
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| 24 [[Cause and effect]] will come back on you.
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| 25  "shalt not be to him as an usurer" to those are poorer.
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| 26-27 Devastate thy neighbor.
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| 28 Thou shalt '''not revile'''<Ref name="qalal">{{07043}}</Ref> [(תְקַלֵּ֑ל) ṯəqallêl [[Double Lamed]]Kuf'''[[Tav]]''' ] the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor [[curse]](normally Alef[[Double Reish]] but here (תָאֹֽר) TavAlefReish)<Ref name="arar">{{0779}}</Ref>  the ruler of thy people.
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| 29-30 Thou shalt not delay to [[sacrifice]] for the needy (firstborn).
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| 31 be holy not "eat any flesh that is torn" 
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== Restitution and risk for stealing ==

1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

=== restitution for damages ===

5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

== Trespass ==

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref>; and whom the judges<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.<Ref name="shalam">{{07999}}</Ref>

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good<Ref name="shalam">{{07999}}</Ref> that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely<Ref name="shalam">{{07999}}</Ref> make it good<Ref name="shalam">{{07999}}</Ref>.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good:<Ref name="shalam">{{07999}}</Ref> if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

== Laws About Social Justice ==

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely<Ref name="mahar">{{04117}}</Ref> endow<Ref name="mahar">{{04117}}</Ref> her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their [[cry out|cry]];

24 And my [[wrath]] shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

28 Thou shalt not revile the [[gods]],<Ref name="elohiym">{{0430}}</Ref> nor curse the ruler of thy people.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
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