Exodus 22:7

22:7 “If a man gives his neighbor money or articles ¹  for safekeeping, ²  and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, ³  he must repay double.

Exodus 22:9

22:9 In all cases of illegal possessions, ⁴  whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says ‘This belongs to me,’ ⁵  the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, ⁶  and the one whom ⁷  the judges declare guilty ⁸  must repay double to his neighbor.

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¹ tn The word usually means “vessels” but can have the sense of household goods and articles. It could be anything from jewels and ornaments to weapons or pottery.

² tn Heb “to keep.” Here “safekeeping,” that is, to keep something secure on behalf of a third party, is intended.

³ tn Heb “found.”

⁴ tn Heb “concerning every kind [thing] of trespass.”

⁵ tn The text simply has “this is it” (הוּא זֶה, hu’ zeh).

⁶ tn Again, or “God.”

⁷ tn This kind of clause Gesenius calls an independent relative clause – it does not depend on a governing substantive but itself expresses a substantival idea (GKC 445-46 §138.e).

⁸ tn The verb means “to be guilty” in Qal; in Hiphil it would have a declarative sense, because a causative sense would not possibly fit.