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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 22:7/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ב:ז׳

אאם לא שלח ידו. יורה כי ונקרב בעל הבית שבועה היא לפי הדיינין על כן אחריו על כל דבר פשע שפשע הנשבע, ור' ישועה אמר, כי פשע הוא שיצא מרשותו, כמו אז תפשע אדום מתחת יד יהודה (מ"ב ח כב), והנה על כל דבר פשע כולל הבא אחריו וכל דבר שיצא מרשות הבעלים, בין שנגנב, בין שאבדה וכחש בה ולא הודה:

1WHETHER HE HAVE NOT PUT HIS HAND UNTO HIS NEIGHBOR’S GOODS. This indicates that then the master of the house shall come near unto God refers to an oath sworn before judges.²⁴ indicates an oath; i.e., then the master of the house shall come near unto God…[and shall swear] whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods. So too Rashi. Hence, For every matter of trespass (v. 8) follows. This means that the one who swore sinned.²⁵ Rabbi Joshua says that pesha (trespass) means that it went out of the owner’s possession, as in “Then did Edom revolt from under the hand of Judah.”²⁶ (II Kings 8:22). For every matter of trespass (v. 8) includes everything that follows²⁷ and everything²⁸ that passes out of the owner’s possession,²⁹. whether stolen³⁰. or lost,³¹ with the finder denying and not admitting that he found it.