'Thief' in the Bible

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

“If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

“The murderer arises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy,And at night he is as a thief.

“They are driven from the community;They shout against them as against a thief,

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,And you associate with adulterers.

Men do not despise a thief if he stealsTo satisfy himself when he is hungry;

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;He hears the oath but tells nothing.

“As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,So the house of Israel is shamed;They, their kings, their princesAnd their priests and their prophets,

When I would heal Israel,The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,And the evil deeds of Samaria,For they deal falsely;The thief enters in,Bandits raid outside,

They rush on the city,They run on the wall;They climb into the houses,They enter through the windows like a thief.

I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”