Exodus 22:2

Modern English Version

If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, then there will be no blood guilt for him.

Cross References

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the owner of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have let his house be broken into.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

1 Thessalonians 5:2

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

Joel 2:9

They rush on the city, they run on the wall; they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like thieves.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they deal deceitfully; the thief breaks in; the robbers raid outside,

Job 30:5

They were driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.

Job 24:14

The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

1 Peter 4:15

Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or even as a busybody.

Job 24:16

In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also in your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, although you never caught them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things,