Êxodo 21:16

16 “Aquele que sequestrar alguém e vendê-lo ou for apanhado com ele em seu poder, terá que ser executado.

Êxodo 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.

Êxodo 21:16 In-Context

14 Mas, se alguém tiver planejado matar outro deliberadamente, tire-o até mesmo do meu altar e mate-o.

15 “Quem agredir o próprio pai ou a própria mãe terá que ser executado.

16 “Aquele que sequestrar alguém e vendê-lo ou for apanhado com ele em seu poder, terá que ser executado.

17 “Quem amaldiçoar seu pai ou sua mãe terá que ser executado.

18 “Se dois homens brigarem e um deles ferir o outro com uma pedra ou com o punho e o outro não morrer, mas cair de cama,