Exodus 22

Treated in 6 passages across the library.

  • 22:1 If someone steals an ox or a sheep and butchers it or sells it, the thief must replace the ox with five cattle and the sheep with four sheep. 1
  • 22:6 Suppose a fire is lit, and it catches in the thorns and spreads, and stacked grain, grain still standing, or a whole field burns up. The person who lit the fire must pay in full for the loss. 1
  • 22:11 Then the two of them shall settle it with an oath of the LORD: the one who kept the animal swears to having taken none of the neighbor's property. The owner must accept the oath, and nothing has to be paid back. 1
  • 22:23 Should you afflict them, you can be sure that when they cry out to me, I will hear their cry, 1
  • 22:26 Should you hold your neighbor's cloak as a pledge for a debt, you must hand it back to its owner before sunset, 1
  • 22:27 for it is the only covering they have, the cloak that wraps their body. In what will they lie down to sleep? When that neighbor cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious. 1
  • 22:29 Do not be slow to give from the abundance of your harvest or from what flows from your presses. Your firstborn sons you shall give to me. 1

Open Word Bible

  1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 1, Chapter 11 — Impiety of Attributing a Visible Form to God cites Exod. 22:1

    …the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wet not what is become of him,” (Exod. 22:1). They knew, indeed, that there was a God whose mighty power they had experienced in so…

  2. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 2, Chapter 8 — Exposition of the Moral Law cites Exod. 22:11

    …lawful (this were amply sufficient), but, in a case of necessity, actually commands it (Exod. 22:11). Christ again declares, that he and his Father are one; that he only delivers what was…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.8 The Eighth Commandment cites Exod 22: 23

    …clamans [This sin shrieks aloud]. ‘If they cry unto me, I will surely hear them.’ Exod 22: 23. (5) To rob the poor. How angry was David that the rich man should take away the poor…

  4. Evening by Evening · Charles H. Spurgeon

    August cites Exodus 22:6

    …field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.” (Exodus 22:6) But what restitution can he make who casts abroad the fire-brands of error, or the coals…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 7 — A Summary of the Christian Life cites Exod. 22:29

    …that it was impious to reap any advantage from goods not previously consecrated to him (Exod. 22:29; 23:19). But if the gifts of God are not sanctified to us until we have with our own hand…

  6. Our Daily Walk · F. B. Meyer

    July cites Exo 22:26-27

    …from him his only covering, or have forborne to help him when he stood in sore need (Exo 22:26-27; Exo 23:4-9). We are bidden to get right with man, as the first step to acceptance with…