Exodus 22:2
If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten that he die, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
Revised Version 1895
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 without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay 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 know not the light.
Hosea 7:1When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood: and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
Matthew 6:19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
1 Thessalonians 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh 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 →