Exodus 21:16

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 24:7 : 7 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.
  • Exod 22:4 : 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.
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers– in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.
  • Gen 37:28 : 28 So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.
  • Gen 40:15 : 15 for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon.”
  • Rev 18:12 : 12 cargo such as gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all sorts of things made of citron wood, all sorts of objects made of ivory, all sorts of things made of expensive wood, bronze, iron and marble,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:6-7
    2 verses
    86%

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

    7If 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.

  • Exod 21:12-15
    4 verses
    83%

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

    13But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

    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.

  • Exod 21:17
    81%

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

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Exod 21:20
    77%

    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.

  • Lev 20:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

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

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Exod 22:1-4
    4 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Lev 24:21
    76%

    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.

  • Deut 21:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    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 13:9-10
    2 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.

  • Exod 21:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • Lev 20:13
    73%

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Num 35:31
    73%

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:16-18
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    73%

    16“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

  • 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.

  • Num 35:21
    72%

    21or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.

  • Exod 20:15
    72%

    15“You shall not steal.

  • Exod 21:26
    72%

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

  • Lev 20:15
    72%

    15If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 27:29
    71%

    29Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.

  • Lev 19:20
    71%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Deut 22:25
    71%

    25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

  • 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.

  • Num 15:35
    71%

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

  • Exod 22:12
    71%

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

  • Exod 22:8
    70%

    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.

  • Exod 21:7
    70%

    7“If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.

  • Exod 21:32
    70%

    32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Lev 20:27
    70%

    27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

  • Gen 44:9
    70%

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

  • Matt 15:4
    70%

    4For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

  • Deut 22:22
    70%

    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.

  • Lev 20:2
    70%

    2“You are to say to the Israelites,‘Any man from the Israelites or from the resident foreigners who live in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the land must pelt him with stones.