¹⁵ For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews,^(A) and even here I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.”^(B)

¹⁶ “Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession.^(A)

Laws about Theft

22 ^[a]“When a man steals an ox or a sheep and butchers it or sells it, he must repay^(A) five cattle for the ox or four sheep for the sheep.

² They also had kidnapped the women and everyone^[a] in it from the youngest to the oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off^(A) as they went on their way.

³ When David and his men arrived at the town, they found it burned down. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been kidnapped.

⁵ David’s two wives,^(A) Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had also been kidnapped.

¹⁰ for the sexually immoral^(A) and homosexuals,^(B) for kidnappers,^[a] liars,^(C) perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching^(D)