LEV339 It is a negative commandment to steal no object or item whatever of monetary value as Scripture says, You shall not steal [this verse]. The prohibition applies to anything worth from a p'rutah [the smallest coin] and up. It is all one whether a person steals the item of monetary value of a Jew, a minor, or a non-Jew; he has to make compensation. It is forbidden to steal anything at all by the law of the Torah, as its law applies [even] to anything half [or less than] the minimum amount. It is forbidden to steal anything by way of a joke, or with the intention of returning it, or with the intention of paying for it. It is forbidden to buy anything which can be firmly assumed to have been stolen.