If the stolen item should in fact be found ¹  alive in his possession, ²  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ³ 

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If what he stole is actually found alive in his possession, whether an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

If what was stolen--whether ox, donkey, or sheep--is actually found alive in his possession, he must repay double.

But if the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it’s a bull, donkey, or a sheep, he must make up for the loss with double the amount.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession— whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.

If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.

bibleoremus Exo 22:4

When the animal, whether ox or donkey or sheep, is found alive in the thief’s possession, the thief shall pay double.

(22:2)

biblegateway Exo 22:4

"If the theft is certainly found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he shall restore double.

If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

biblegateway Exo 22:4

If the stolen item should in fact be found ¹  alive in his possession, ²  whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double. ³ 

¹ tn The construction uses a Niphal infinitive absolute and a Niphal imperfect: if it should indeed be found. Gesenius says that in such conditional clauses the infinitive absolute has less emphasis, but instead emphasizes the condition on which some consequence depends (see GKC 342-43 §113.o).

² tn Heb “in his hand.”

³ sn He must pay back one for what he took, and then one for the penalty – his loss as he was inflicting a loss on someone else.