Exodus 22:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

(If the thief is found breaking in and is struck dead, no bloodguilt is incurred;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no blood shed for him.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

If the thief is caught breaking in and is beaten and dies, the one who killed him won’t be guilty of bloodshed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood.

Exodus 22:2 Cross References

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

Job 30:5

They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Joel 2:9

They leap upon the city; they run upon the walls; they climb up into the houses; they enter through the windows like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

and is found by the avenger of blood outside the bounds of the city of refuge and is killed by the avenger, no bloodguilt shall be incurred.

Matthew 24:43

But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal, or even as a mischief maker.