Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 2.3.4.2

2.3.4.2

tānu hāgnirnicakame | taiḥ samgṛhya rātrim praviveśa punarema iti devā edagniṃ tirobhūtaṃ te ha vidāṃ cakruriha vai prāvikṣadrātriṃ vai prāvikṣaditi tametatpratyāyatyāṃ rātrau sāyamupātiṣṭhanta dehi naḥ paśūnpunarnaḥ paśūndehīti tebhyo 'gniḥ paśūnpunaradadāt

Now Agni coveted them, and seizing them he entered the night with them. 'Let us go back thither,' said the gods, and betook themselves to where Agni was concealed. Now they knew that he had entered there, that he had entered the night; and when the night returned in the evening, they approached him and said, 'Give us our beasts! give us back our beasts!' Agni then gave them back their beasts.