16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death,(A) whether the victim has been sold(B) or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.

17 “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.(C)

18 “If people quarrel and one person hits another with a stone or with their fist[a] and the victim does not die but is confined to bed,

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 21:18 Or with a tool

16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

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