Exodus 9:2

9:2 For if you refuse to release them ¹  and continue holding them, ² 

Exodus 21:23

21:23 But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

Exodus 22:12

22:12 But if it was stolen ³  from him, ⁴  he will pay its owner.

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¹ tn The object “them” is implied in the context.

² tn עוֹד (’od), an adverb meaning “yet, still,” can be inflected with suffixes and used as a predicator of existence, with the nuance “to still be, yet be” (T. O. Lambdin, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew, 171-72, §137). Then, it is joined here with the Hiphil participle מַחֲזִיק (makhaziq) to form the sentence “you are still holding them.”

³ tn Both with this verb “stolen” and in the next clauses with “torn in pieces,” the text uses the infinitive absolute construction with less than normal emphasis; as Gesenius says, in conditional clauses, an infinitive absolute stresses the importance of the condition on which some consequence depends (GKC 342-43 §113.o).

⁴ sn The point is that the man should have taken better care of the animal.