Exodus 22:2

If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he has been struck and has died, there is no blood for him;

Literal Standard 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

1When a man steals an ox or sheep, and has slaughtered it or sold it, he repays [with] five of the herd for the ox, and four of the flock for the sheep.

3if the sun has risen on him, blood [is] for him, he certainly repays; if he has nothing, then he has been sold for his theft;

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Cross References

Numbers 35:27and the redeemer of blood has found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood has slain the manslayer, blood [is] not [reckoned] to him;

Job 24:16He has dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, || They have not known light.

Hosea 7:1“When I give healing to Israel, || Then the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, || And the wickedness of Samaria, || For they have worked falsehood, || And a thief comes in, || A troop has stripped off in the street,

Matthew 6:19Do not treasure up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

1 Thessalonians 5:2for you have thoroughly known that the Day of the 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 →

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