Éxodo 21:16

16 Asimismo el que robare una persona, y la vendiere, o si fuere hallado en sus manos, morirá

Éxodo 21:16 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 21:16

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him
One of the children of Israel, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so the Septuagint version: but though this law was given to the Israelites primarily, yet was made for men stealers in general, as the apostle observes, who plainly has reference to it, ( 1 Timothy 1:9 1 Timothy 1:10 ) :

or if he be found in his hand;
before the selling of him, as Jarchi notes, since he stole him in order to sell him, he was guilty of death, as follows:

he shall surely be put to death;
with strangling, as the same Jewish writer remarks, as on the preceding verse; and Jarchi sets it down as a rule, that all death in the law, simply expressed, is strangling.

Éxodo 21:16 In-Context

14 Además, si alguno se ensoberbeciere contra su prójimo, y lo matare con prudencia, de mi altar lo quitarás para que muera

15 Y el que hiriere a su padre o a su madre, morirá

16 Asimismo el que robare una persona, y la vendiere, o si fuere hallado en sus manos, morirá

17 Igualmente el que maldijere a su padre o a su madre, morirá

18 Además, si algunos riñeren, y alguno hiriere a su prójimo con piedra o con el puño, y no muriere, pero cayere en cama