If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,
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.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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.
For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.
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 are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.
The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.
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