World English Bible
Exodus 21:16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”
Verse in context — Exodus 21
14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15
Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
16
Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
17
Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
18
If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
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God delivers Israel from Egypt, gives the Ten Commandments, and establishes His covenant with His people.
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