Exodus 22:9

Extension of the principle of v.8 to allcases of suspected misappropriation of property, whether arising out of a -deposit," or not.

any manner of lost thing which is found, it is implied, suspiciously in the possession of another.

This is it viz. the thing that I have lost.

he whom, &c. i.e. whoever, in such a case, is convicted of being in the unlawful possession of property. How the conviction was effected, is not stated: perhaps the oath was only one element in a judicial enquiry; perhaps it was accompanied by an ordeal, and if this was not passed successfully, it was regarded as God's condemnation.

double as in vv.4, 7; not fourfold (v.1), the disputed article being still, in the general case assumed in v.9, in the possession of the party accused.