) "If he (the thief) has blood, pay shall he pay" — R

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Nezikin 13:8

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 16, 2025

(Exodus, Ibid.) "If he (the thief) has blood, pay shall he pay": R. Eliezer b. Yaakov says: If there were before him (the thief) pitchers of wine and pitchers of oil and he broke them, so long as he (the owner) knows that he (the thief) is at peace with him, (as in the instance of a father coming to burglarize his son, where the son knows that if he resists his father he will not be killed, [so that he may not kill him]) then (even if) he does kill him, he is liable (retroactively for what he broke), it being written "If he (the thief) has blood (i.e., if it is forbidden to kill him), pay shall he pay."

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