2-4. But if you cannot afford to replace the animals, you must be sold as a slave to pay for what you have stolen. If you steal an ox, donkey, or sheep, and are caught with it still alive, you must pay the owner double.If you happen to kill a burglar who breaks into your home after dark, you are not guilty. But if you kill someone who breaks in during the day, you are guilty of murder.
14. Suppose you borrow an animal from a neighbour, and it gets injured or dies while the neighbour isn't around. Then you must replace it.
15. But if something happens to the animal while the owner is present, you do not have to replace it. If you had leased the animal, the money you paid the owner will cover any harm done to it.
16. Suppose a young woman has never been married and isn't engaged. If a man talks her into having sex, he must pay the bride price and marry her.
17. But if her father refuses to let her marry the man, the bride price must still be paid.
18. Death is the punishment for witchcraft.
19. Death is the punishment for having sex with an animal.
20. Death is the punishment for offering sacrifices to any god except me.
21. Do not ill-treat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt.
22. Do not ill-treat widows or orphans.
23. If you do, they will beg for my help, and I will come to their rescue.
24. In fact, I will get so angry that I will kill your men and make widows of their wives and orphans of their children.
25. Don't charge interest when you lend money to any of my people who are in need.
26. Before sunset you must return any coat taken as security for a loan,
27. because that is the only cover the poor have when they sleep at night. I am a merciful God, and when they call out to me, I will come to help them.
28. Don't speak evil of me or of the ruler of your people.
29. Don't fail to give me the offerings of grain and wine that belong to me.Dedicate to me your firstborn sons
30. and the firstborn of your cattle and sheep. Let the animals stay with their mothers for seven days, then on the eighth day give them to me, your God.
31. You are my chosen people, so don't eat the meat of any of your livestock that was killed by a wild animal. Instead, feed the meat to dogs.