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Exodus 22:5

in Exodus 22

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it 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.

KJV

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.

This verse in Exodus 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard

on Exodus 22:5-6

Both cases are damage done without theft, a straying beast and a spreading fire. Restitution comes out of the best of the offender's own field, so carelessness costs him better produce than he ruined.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

We should be more careful not to do wrong than not to suffer wrong, because to suffer wrong is only an affliction, but to do wrong is a sin, and sin is always worse than affliction.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Shall put in his beast, and shall feed - Rather, shall let his beast go loose, and it shall feed.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֤יif

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יַבְעֶר־he will cause to be grazed over

    yaver-H1197 →94 times

  • אִישׁ֙anyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • שָׂדֶ֣הa field

    sadehH7704 →334 times

  • אוֹ־or

    ʾov-H176 →321 times

  • כֶ֔רֶםa vineyard

    kheremH3754 →92 times

  • וְשִׁלַּח֙and he will let go

    veshilachH7971 →845 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּעִיר֔וֹcattle his

    beiroH1165 →

  • וּבִעֵ֖רand it will graze

    uvierH1197 →94 times

  • בִּשְׂדֵ֣הin [the] field of

    bisdehH7704 →334 times

  • אַחֵ֑רanother [person]

    ʾacherH312 →166 times

  • מֵיטַ֥ב[the] best of

    meitavH4315 →

  • שָׂדֵ֛הוּfield his

    sadehuH7704 →334 times

  • וּמֵיטַ֥בand [the] best of

    umeitavH4315 →

  • כַּרְמ֖וֹvineyard his

    karmoH3754 →92 times

  • יְשַׁלֵּֽם׃ סhe will make compensation

    yeshalemH7999 →116 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Job 20:18

    He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it; he cannot enjoy the profits of his trading.

    it leads to

    • Job 20:10

      His sons will seek the favor of the poor, for his own hands must return his wealth.

    • Jeremiah 51:44

      I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.

    • Proverbs 1:12

      let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

    • Job 20:15

      He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

    • Jeremiah 22:13

      “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

  • Through

    Exodus 22:3

    But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 21:2

      If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

  • Through

    Exodus 22:12

    But if the animal was actually stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 31:39

      I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

  • Through

    Exodus 21:34

    the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 22:14

      If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.