If a thief be found breaking up
An house, in order to steal money, jewels, household goods or breaking through any fence, hedge, or wall of any enclosure, where oxen, or sheep, or any other creatures are, in order to take them away: the Targum of Jonathan is,
``if in the hole of a wall (or window of it) a thief be found;''that is, in the night, as appears from the following verse, "if the sun" to which this is opposed, as Aben Ezra observes; some render it, with a digging instrument F24; and it is a Jewish canon F25, that
``if anyone enter with a digging instrument: he is condemned on account of his end;''his design, which is apparent by the instrument found upon him; for, as Maimonides F26 observes,
``it is well known, that if anyone enters with a digging instrument, that he intends, if the master of the house opposes him to deliver his goods out of his power, that he will kill him, and therefore it is lawful to kill him; but it does not signify whether he enters with a digging instrument, either by the way of the court, or roof;''and be smitten that he die