Exodus 22:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the daytime; They know not the light.

Job 30:5

They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: I have not found it at the place of breaking in, but upon all these.

Hosea 7:1

When 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.

Joel 2:9

They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

and 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:

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters: