The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
Exodus 22:2 - English Standard Version 2016 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 更多版本King 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 before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.
Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.