Exodus 22:2 - Revised Standard Version CI

² If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or an ass or a sheep, he shall pay double.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Common English Bible

² 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

² 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.

Exodus 22:2 Cross References

Job 24:14

The murderer rises in the dark, that he may kill the poor and needy; and in the night he is as 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 among men; they shout after them as after a thief.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find 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 without.

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 the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know 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, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker;