The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Exodus 22:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him. Common English Bible 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a thief be found breaking open a house or undermining it, and be wounded so as to die: he that slew him shall not be guilty of blood. |
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
When I would heal Yisra'el, then the iniquity of Efrayim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Shomron; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.
and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.