Éxodo 21:16

16 »Todo secuestrador será ejecutado, ya sea que encuentren a la víctima en su poder o que ya la haya vendido como esclavo.

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 Sin embargo, si alguien mata a otra persona a propósito, tendrán que agarrar al responsable, aunque esté frente a mi altar, y matarlo.

15 »Cualquiera que golpee a su padre o a su madre será ejecutado.

16 »Todo secuestrador será ejecutado, ya sea que encuentren a la víctima en su poder o que ya la haya vendido como esclavo.

17 »Cualquiera que deshonre
a su padre o a su madre será ejecutado.

18 »Supongamos que dos hombres pelean, y uno golpea al otro con una piedra o con el puño, y la persona herida no muere pero tiene que guardar cama.