Exodus 21:16
Good News Translation
"Whoever kidnaps someone, either to sell him or to keep him as a slave, is to be put to death.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever kidnaps a person, whether that person has been sold or is still held in possession, shall be put to death.

Contemporary English Version
Death is the punishment for kidnapping. If you sell the person you kidnapped, or if you are caught with that person, the penalty is death.

New American Bible
A kidnapper, whether he sells the person or the person is found in his possession, shall be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

stealeth

Genesis 40:15 For I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here without any fault was cast into the dungeon.

Deuteronomy 24:7 If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

Revelation 18:12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and of iron and of marble:

selleth him

Genesis 37:28 And when the Madianite merchants passed by, they drew him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ismaelites, for twenty pieces of silver: and they led him into Egypt.

found in

Exodus 22:4 If that which he stole be found with him, alive, either ox, or ass, or sheep: he shall restore double.

Context
Personal Injury Laws
15He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death. 16He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.17He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.…
Cross References
1 Timothy 1:10
For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.

Exodus 21:15
He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 24:7
If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

Exodus 21:15
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