 | Bourne Hall Draper - Bible - 1845 - 352 pages
...of which they could make a profit. To steal and sell a man is expressly contrary to God's command, " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death," Exod. xxi. 16. Tyre seems to have been superior to any other... | |
 | John Woolman - 1845 - 826 pages
...who unjustly deprived men of it, were to be punished in like manner as if they had murdered them. " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him; or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." This part of the law was so considerable, that Paul the learned... | |
 | William Whewell - Ethics - 1845 - 420 pages
...country, and sending them into another. VOL. i. F This offense was noticed also in the Jewish Law * : " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." So likewise in the Roman Law, Plagium, the offense of buying,... | |
 | William Whewell - Ethics - 1845 - 422 pages
...country, and sending them into another. VOL. i. F This offense was noticed also in the Jewish Law * : " He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." So likewise in the Roman Law, Plagwm, the offense of buying,... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fiction - 1996 - 220 pages
...think that the Bible sanctions slavery. The Old Testament contains this explicit condemnation of it, 'He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death'; and 'Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 pages
...are the Offspring of GOD, and their Liberty is, ... Auro pretiosior Omni. And seeing GOD hath said, Earth's great Atlas, that supports The pay of Armies, and the h hand, he shall surely be put to Death. Exod. 21.16. This Law being of Everlasting Equity, wherein Man... | |
 | Jewish Publication Society - Religion - 1996 - 406 pages
...that he may die. :'And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. '"And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely... | |
 | Lawrence William Towner - African Americans - 1998 - 286 pages
...Opposite Both Grace and Nature (np 1733, reprinted in New Bedford, 1825), 19. Exodus 21:16 reads, "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." 6. Theopolis Americana.... 21-22. Mather quotes from Richard... | |
 | David Turley - Religion - 1998 - 480 pages
...mentioned, and promoting Man Stealing, the only theft which by the Mosaic law was punished with death. "He that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hands he shall surely be put to death." Exod. xxi. 16. The Characteristic and badge of a true Christian... | |
 | Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith, WGBH Series Research Team - History - 1999 - 554 pages
...Exodus, chapter 21, verse 16, was an example of the Christian ideals Vesey and his followers had in mind: "[H]e that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Frank, a black citizen of Charleston, told of a meeting with... | |
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And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 
