Exodus 22:2

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

If a thief {H1590} be found {H4672} breaking up {H4290}, and be smitten {H5221} that he die {H4191}, there shall no blood {H1818} be shed for him.

"If a thief caught in the act of breaking in is beaten to death, it is not murder;

If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.

If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 24:43 (9 votes)

    But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

  • Matthew 6:19 (5 votes)

    Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

  • Matthew 6:20 (5 votes)

    But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

  • Numbers 35:27 (5 votes)

    And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Joel 2:9 (2 votes)

    They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

  • Job 30:5 (2 votes)

    They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

  • Hosea 7:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.