Exodus 21:16
World English Bible (WEB)
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
In context
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;
Exodus 21:16 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- KJV King James Version
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 'And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he shall be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.