If a thief broke a house in the night, and was killed in the doing it, his blood was upon his own head. But if it were in the day — time that the thief was killed, he that killed him was accountable for it, unless it were in the necessary defence of his own life.
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Exodus 22:2
2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.