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"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
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A Crime Akin to Murder
Commentators explain that kidnapping was a capital offense, placed alongside murder, to show God's extreme abhorrence for it. Scholar Charles Ellicott notes that stealing a person is a crime "only a very little short of murder," as it robs a person of their liberty, which gives life its primary value. The severe penalty reflects the profound violation against the individual.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The following offenses were to be punished with death:
19th Century
Anglican
And he that smiteth his father ... — With homicide are joined some other offences, regarded as heinous and made punishabl…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him One of the children of Israel, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, a…
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