Exodus 22:2

World English Bible (2000)

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed 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 of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
  • Num 35:27 : 27 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,
  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on 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 consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
  • 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
  • Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
  • Job 30:5 : 5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
  • Hos 7:1 : 1 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
  • Joel 2:9 : 9 They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 22:3-8
    6 verses
    86%

    3If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

    5"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.

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

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

    8If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.

  • Exod 22:1
    79%

    1"If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

  • Exod 22:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10"If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

    11the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

    12But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.

    13If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.

    14"If a man borrows anything of his neighbor's, and it is injured, or dies, its owner not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.

  • Exod 21:12-16
    5 verses
    76%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

    14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

    15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

    16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 24:7
    76%

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

  • Num 35:16-23
    8 verses
    74%

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

    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which 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 meets him, he shall put him to death.

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

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

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

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

  • Exod 21:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

    20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.

  • Lev 24:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.

    21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Deut 19:12
    73%

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

  • Prov 6:30-31
    2 verses
    73%

    30Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

    31but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

  • Exod 21:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

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

  • Lev 24:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17"'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

    18He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  • Deut 21:1
    72%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

  • Num 35:31
    71%

    31"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who 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 lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die:

    26but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

  • Prov 28:17
    71%

    17A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

  • Josh 20:5
    71%

    5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.

  • Exod 21:23
    71%

    23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • Deut 21:22
    71%

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

  • Job 24:14
    71%

    14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Exod 21:36
    71%

    36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Num 35:27
    71%

    27and 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,

  • Lev 6:4
    70%

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