Deuteronomy 24:7
Good News Translation
"If any of you kidnap Israelites and make them your slaves or sell them into slavery, you are to be put to death. In this way your nation will get rid of this evil.

New Revised Standard Version
If someone is caught kidnaping another Israelite, enslaving or selling the Israelite, then that kidnaper shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Contemporary English Version
If you are guilty of kidnapping Israelites and forcing them into slavery, you will be put to death to remove this evil from the community.

New American Bible
If anyone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite, enslaving or selling the victim, that kidnapper shall be put to death. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

found

Exodus 21:16 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

Ezekiel 27:13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they were thy merchants, they brought to thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:

Revelation 18:13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and chariots: and slaves and souls of men.

then that

Exodus 21:16 He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

Exodus 22:1-4 If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep. . . .

and thou shalt

Deuteronomy 19:19 They shall render to him as he meant to do to his brother, and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee:

Context
Additional Laws
6Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee. 7If any man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.8Observe diligently that thou incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but thou shalt do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach thee, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil thou it carefully.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:16
He that shall steal a man, and sell him, being convicted of the guilt, shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 24:6
Thou shalt not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he hath pledged his life to thee.

Deuteronomy 24:6
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