² If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

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.

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,

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;

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

⁵ They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

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.

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.

² For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.