Deuteronomy 24:7

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If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:16 : 16 “Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.
  • Rev 18:13 : 13 cinnamon, spice, incense, perfumed ointment, frankincense, wine, olive oil and costly flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and four-wheeled carriages, slaves and human lives.
  • Exod 22:1-4 : 1 Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep. 2 “If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him. 3 If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft. 4 If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.
  • Deut 19:19 : 19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
  • Ezek 27:13 : 13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 21:14-17
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    86%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 22:1-4
    4 verses
    77%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

    3If the sun has risen on him, then there is blood guilt for him. A thief must surely make full restitution; if he has nothing, then he will be sold for his theft.

    4If the stolen item should in fact be found alive in his possession, whether it be an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he must pay back double.

  • Deut 13:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

    10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Exod 22:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7“If a man gives his neighbor money or articles for safekeeping, and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he must repay double.

    8If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

  • Lev 24:16-17
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    74%

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Deut 19:19
    73%

    19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 24:21
    73%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Lev 25:14
    73%

    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

  • Exod 22:12
    73%

    12But if it was stolen from him, he will pay its owner.

  • Deut 15:12
    72%

    12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.

  • Gen 44:9
    72%

    9If one of us has it, he will die, and the rest of us will become my lord’s slaves!”

  • Deut 17:5
    72%

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

  • Lev 25:45-47
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    72%

    45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

    47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

  • Deut 24:6
    72%

    6One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.

  • Deut 24:14
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    14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

    22Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

  • Deut 22:22
    72%

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • Deut 17:7
    72%

    7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 6:2
    72%

    2“When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,

  • Exod 21:12
    71%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 22:24
    71%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 6:4
    71%

    4when it happens that he sins and he is found guilty, then he must return whatever he had stolen, or whatever he had extorted, or the thing that he had held in trust, or the lost thing that he had found,

  • Exod 21:2
    71%

    2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.

  • Prov 6:30
    71%

    30People do not despise a thief when he steals to fulfill his need when he is hungry.

  • Deut 24:17
    71%

    17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow’s garment as security for a loan.

  • Lev 25:39
    71%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

  • Exod 31:14
    71%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

  • Lev 19:11
    71%

    11Dealing Honestly“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.

  • Exod 22:14
    71%

    14“If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies when its owner was not with it, the man who borrowed it will surely pay.

  • Deut 22:1
    70%

    1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

  • Deut 17:2
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    2Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

  • Deut 13:5
    70%

    5As for that prophet or dreamer, he must be executed because he encouraged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, redeeming you from that place of slavery, and because he has tried to entice you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to go. In this way you must purge out evil from within.

  • Lev 20:10
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    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • Deut 17:12
    70%

    12The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

  • Exod 20:15
    70%

    15“You shall not steal.

  • Exod 21:20
    70%

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.