Exodus 22:2
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
Cross References
Matthew 6:19
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 24:43
But understand this: If the homeowner had known in which watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Peter 4:15
Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Jeremiah 2:34
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things


Treasury of Scripture
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

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Job 24:14
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.



Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)



Hosea 7:1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

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Numbers 35:27
And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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