Neville Goddard on Exodus 22:2-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 22 in context

Scripture Focus

2If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.

5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

Exodus 22:2-5

Biblical Context

Exodus 22:2-5 lays out restitution for theft and damage: return what was taken, repay double when found in hand, and make good what was eaten, depending on what the thief can restore.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within me, the thief is any habit or fear that steals my aliveness and misuses my inner wealth. When I observe that thief and declare that I am not that fear, I withdraw the blood of conflict from my thoughts. The sun rising on him is the ego’s recognition of the cost of living in fear, and in that moment I choose to pay the debt by re-harmonizing my inner economy. If I feel I have nothing, I understand I am given a fresh starting place in imagination; I am invited to restore what is mine by imagining the best of my own field and vineyard back into my life. The demand for double restitution is the invitation to enlarge my inner resources, to invest the best of myself and my faculties into life again. The underlying law is simple: consciousness creates reality, and the restoration I seek begins as a change of mind. When I honor the inner balance, the outer world follows, and freedom blossoms.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume: I have restored double what was lost, and my inner field and vineyard are thriving. Feel the abundance as real in my chest, and let that assurance reshape my current sense of lack.