And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of guilt, shall be put to death.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall certainly be put to death.

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.

'And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his possession, he shall surely be put to death.

Whoever will have stolen a man and sold him, having been convicted of the crime, shall be put to death.

He that stealeth a man - By this law every man-stealer, and every receiver of the stolen person, should lose his life; no matter whether the latter stole the man himself, or gave money to a slave captain or negro-dealer to steal him for him.

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,
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.