Exodus 21:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Genesis 37:28

When the Midianite merchants came by, Joseph's brothers took him out of the well, and for twenty pieces of silver they sold him to the Ishmaelites who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 40:15

I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here in Egypt I haven't done anything to deserve being thrown in jail.

Exodus 20:15

Do not steal.

Exodus 21:15

Death is the punishment for attacking your father or mother.

Deuteronomy 24:7

If you are guilty of kidnapping Israelites and forcing them into slavery, you will be put to death to remove this evil from the community.

1 Timothy 1:10

The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court. It is for anything else that opposes the correct teaching

Revelation 18:12

There won't be anyone to buy their gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, sweet-smelling wood, fancy carvings of ivory and wood, as well as things made of bronze, iron, or marble.