KJV King James Version
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Exodus 22:2
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
WEB World English Bible
If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
ASV American Standard Version
If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;
Surrounding context — Exodus 22
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 shall restore double.
5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
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Matthew 24:43But 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 6:19-20Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:Numbers 35:27And 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:1 Thessalonians 5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.Job 24:14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.Joel 2:9They 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 30:5They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)Hosea 7:1When 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.
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