Exodus 10:9

10:9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold ¹  a pilgrim feast for the Lord.”

Exodus 22:4

22:4 If the stolen item should in fact be found ²  alive in his possession, ³  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ⁴ 

Exodus 22:10

22:10 If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is hurt ⁵  or is carried away ⁶  without anyone seeing it, ⁷ 

Exodus 22:30

22:30 You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

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¹ tn Heb “we have a pilgrim feast (חַג, khag) to Yahweh.”

² 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).

³ tn Heb “in his hand.”

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn The form is a Niphal participle from the verb “to break” – “is broken,” which means harmed, maimed, or hurt in any way.

⁶ tn This verb is frequently used with the meaning “to take captive.” The idea here then is that raiders or robbers have carried off the animal.

⁷ tn Heb “there is no one seeing.”