Exodus 22:2

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.

Cross References

Job 24:14

The killer of men rises at first light; he executes the destitute and the poor, but, in truth, he is like a thief in the night.

Job 24:16

He passes through houses in the nighttime, just as they had agreed among themselves in the daytime; and they are ignorant of the light.

Job 30:5

They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.

Jeremiah 2:34

and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.

Hosea 7:1

When I was willing to heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the malice of Samaria, for they had been manufacturing lies. And the thief steals from inside, the robber from outside.

Joel 2:9

They will advance into the city; they will rush through the wall. They will scale the houses; they will go in through the windows, like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

and he has been struck by him who is avenging blood, he who killed him shall not be harmed.

Matthew 24:43

But know this: if only the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly keep vigil and not permit his house to be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer for being a murderer, or a thief, or a slanderer, or one who covets what belongs to another.