Deuteronomy 24:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:16 : 16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,
  • Rev 18:13 : 13 And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
  • Exod 22:1-4 : 1 If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made. 2 If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. 3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. 4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.
  • Deut 19:19 : 19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.
  • Ezek 27:13 : 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; they gave living men and brass vessels for your goods.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 86%

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

    15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.

    16 Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

    17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

  • Exod 22:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1 If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

    2 If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

    3 But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

    4 If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

  • Deut 13:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

    10 Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

  • Exod 22:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.

    8 If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

    17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • 19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

  • 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • 14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

  • 12 But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner.

  • 12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

  • 9 If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.

  • 5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

  • Lev 25:45-47
    3 verses
    72%

    45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

    46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

    47 And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

  • 6 No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

  • 14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

  • 72%

    21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

    22 If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

  • 22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • 2 Give orders to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law for the burned offering: the offering is to be on the fire-wood on the altar all night till the morning; and the fire of the altar is to be kept burning.

  • 12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

  • 24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • 4 Then having taken off his linen robes and put on other clothing, he is to take it away into a clean place, outside the tent-circle.

  • 2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • 30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

  • 17 Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

  • 39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

  • 14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

  • 11 Do not take anyone's property or be false in act or word to another.

  • 14 If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

  • 1 If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

  • 2 If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,

  • 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • 10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

  • 12 And any man who, in his pride, will not give ear to the priest whose place is there before the Lord your God, or to the judge, is to be put to death: you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 15 Do not take the property of another.

  • 20 If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.