KJV King James Version
If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.
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Exodus 22:13
If it be torn in pieces, [then] let him bring it [for] witness, [and] he shall not make good that which was torn.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If the animal was torn to pieces, he shall bring it as evidence; he need not make restitution for the torn carcass.
WEB World English Bible
If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
ASV American Standard Version
If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good that which was torn.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if it is certainly torn, he bringeth it in—a witness; the torn thing he doth not repay.
Surrounding context — Exodus 22
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.
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.
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Amos 3:12Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus [in] a couch.Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.Ezekiel 4:14Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.Micah 5:8And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
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