גָּנַב

So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

You shall not steal.

Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.

But if the animal was actually stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner.

You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.

You shall not steal.

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?”

…he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.

But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.

But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.

Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.

“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”

Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you will be ruined—would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.