Exodus 22:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

Cross References

Job 24:14

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Job 24:16

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

Job 30:5

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

Jeremiah 2:34

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

Hosea 7:1

When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

Joel 2:9

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

Matthew 24:43

But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;