Exodus 22:2
If the thief is found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 35:27and the avenger of blood find him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
Hosea 7:1When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the troop of robbers ravages outside.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
1 Thessalonians 5:2For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:2-7
Judicial Laws. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. 3 If 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. 4 If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he… Read the whole commentary →