They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “If someone is caught kidnaping another Israelite, enslaving or selling the Israelite, then that kidnaper shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the Israelites and treats him as a slave or a servant or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall put evil from among you. American Standard Version (1901) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. Common English Bible If someone is caught kidnapping their fellow Israelites, intending to enslave the Israelite or sell them, that kidnapper must die. Remove such evil from your community! Catholic Public Domain Version If a man has been caught soliciting his brother among the sons of Israel, and selling him in order to receive a price, then he shall be put to death. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
They drive away the donkey of the orphan; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
“There are those who snatch the orphan child from the breast and take as a pledge the infant of the poor.
“Whoever kidnaps a person, whether that person has been sold or is still held in possession, shall be put to death.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.
“If anyone secretly entices you—even if it is your brother, your father’s son or your mother’s son, or your own son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend—saying, ‘Let us go serve other gods,’ whom neither you nor your ancestors have known,
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against the person to execute the death penalty and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness had meant to do to the other. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
“No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching
cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, olive oil, choice flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, slaves—and human lives.