Exodus 22:2
“¶ If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him.”
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Exodus 22:2 Context
1If a man shal steale an oxe, or a sheepe, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore fiue oxen for an oxe, and foure sheepe for a sheepe. 2¶ If a thiefe bee found breaking vp, and be smitten that he die, there shal no blood be shed for him. 3If the Sunne be risen vpon him, there shall be blood shed for him: for hee should make full restitution: if he haue nothing, then he shall bee sold for his theft. 4If the theft be certainely found in his hand aliue, whether it bee oxe or asse, or sheepe, he shall restore double.
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If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
- King James Version
"If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.
- New American Standard Version (1995)