Exodus 22:2

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
  • Num 35:27 : 27 and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
  • Job 30:5 : 5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men] ; They cry after them as after a thief;
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.
  • Joel 2:9 : 9 They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:3-8
    6 verses
    86%

    3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall pay double.

    5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

    6If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

    7If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.

    8If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, [to see] whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.

  • Exod 22:1
    79%

    1If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

  • Exod 22:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

    11the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

    13If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn.

    14And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Exod 21:12-16
    5 verses
    76%

    12He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

    13And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

    14And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

    15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

    16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 24:7
    76%

    7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  • Num 35:16-23
    8 verses
    74%

    16But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

    20And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.

    22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

    23or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

  • Exod 21:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

    19if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

    20And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

  • Lev 24:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

    21And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

  • Deut 19:12
    73%

    12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

  • Prov 6:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:

    31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.

  • Exod 21:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

    30If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

  • Lev 24:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

    18And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  • Deut 21:1
    72%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;

  • Num 35:31
    71%

    31Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 22:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

    26but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

  • Prov 28:17
    71%

    17A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; Let no man stay him.

  • Josh 20:5
    71%

    5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

  • Exod 21:23
    71%

    23But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

  • Deut 21:22
    71%

    22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

  • Job 24:14
    71%

    14The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Exod 21:36
    71%

    36Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.

  • Num 35:27
    71%

    27and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

  • Lev 6:4
    70%

    4then it shall be, if he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he hath gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,