The Skeptics Annotated Bible (81 page)

5 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.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

(22.16-17) If you “entice” an “unmarried maid” to “lie” with you, then you must marry her, unless the father refuses to give her to you, in which case you must pay him the going price for virgins.

16 And
if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

(22.16)
“If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”

17
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

(22.17)
“If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”

18
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

(22.18)
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
23 Does God approve of capital punishment?

19
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

(22.19)
“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.”