If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.(A) You must purge the evil from among you.(B)

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“If a man is caught[a] kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen,[b] the Israelites,[c] and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil from among you.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “found”
  2. Deuteronomy 24:7 Or “brothers”
  3. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  4. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “from your midst”

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

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