Exodus 22:2

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 24:14

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Job 30:5

They were banished from the community – people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves –

Jeremiah 2:34

Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

Hosea 7:1

whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.

Joel 2:9

They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

Matthew 24:43

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.