When she came to me the animal started bleating, and I said to her: “Where does the kid come from? It is not stolen, is it? Give it back to its owners. We have no right to eat anything stolen.”
In context
11My wife Anna hired herself out at the work women do, 12and she would send the pieces to those who had ordered them, and they paid her wage; once they threw in a young goat as well. 13When she came to me the animal started bleating, and I said to her: “Where does the kid come from? It is not stolen, is it? Give it back to its owners. We have no right to eat anything stolen.” 14She said: “It was given to me as a present, over and above my wage.” I did not believe her, and I kept telling her to give it back to its owners, and the blood rose in my face before her. But she answered me: “And where are your alms now, where are your righteous deeds? Look at you — it is all plain to see.”
