From the Rejection of That Generation to the Death of Moses - Flavius Josephus

pledge, that the debtor, may not be deprived of instruments to get their food
withal, and lest they be undone by their necessity.
27. Let death be the punishment for stealing a man; but he that hath
purloined gold or silver, let him pay double. If any one kill a man that is
stealing something out of his house, let him be esteemed guiltless, although
the man were only breaking in at the wall. Let him that hath stolen cattle pay
fourfold what is lost, excepting the case of an ox, for which let the thief pay
fivefold. Let him that is so poor that he cannot pay what mulet is laid upon
him, be his servant to whom he was adjudged to pay it.
28. If any one be sold to one of his own nation, let him serve him six
years, and on the seventh let him go free. But if he have a son by a woman
servant in his purchaser's house, and if, on account of his good-will to his
master, and his natural affection to his wife and children, he will be his
servant still, let him be set free only at the coming of the year of jubilee,
which is the fiftieth year, and let him then take away with him his children
and wife, and let them be free also.
29. If any one find gold or silver on the road, let him inquire after him
that lost it, and make proclamation of the place where he found it, and then
restore it to him again, as not thinking it right to make his own profit by the
loss of another. And the same rule is to be observed in cattle found to have
wandered away into a lonely place. If the owner be not presently discovered,
let him that is the finder keep it with himself, and appeal to God that he has
not purloined what belongs to another.
30. It is not lawful to pass by any beast that is in distress, when in a
storm it is fallen down in the mire, but to endeavor to preserve it, as having a
sympathy with it in its pain.
31. It is also a duty to show the roads to those who do not know them,
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