Exodus 22:5

Hebrew Bible

4 If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. 5If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard and he lets the livestock loose and they graze in the field of another man, he must make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard. 6 “If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

LXX Exodus 22:5

Septuagint

4 And if he is seized and the stolen thing, whether a donkey or a sheep, is discovered in his hand alive, he shall repay them double. 5 And if a person puts a flock out to graze in a field or a vineyard and lets his livestock loose to graze in another’s field, he shall make compensation from his field according to his own produce. And if he causes his flock to feed upon the whole field, he shall make compensation from the very best of his field and the very best of his vineyard. 6 And if a fire breaks out and finds thorny plants and ignites a threshing floor or stacked grain or a field, the one who lit the fire shall give compensation.

 Notes and References
"... The second difficulty for the verse is the textual plus of the Samaritan and Septuagint in the middle of the verse. In this formulation, the verse has two distinct laws ... The plus is probably an addition to harmonize the stricter payment required in the Masoretic text verse 4b over against that in verse 5. Note also that in the Masoretic text as it stands, the (initial) protasis and apodosis have both “field” and “vineyard,” whereas the plus of the versions has only a “field” in its two members. This creates some inconsistency in the distribution of locales in the two laws of the Samaritan and Greek ..."

Wright, David P. Inventing God's Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi (p. 239) Oxford University Press, 2009

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