| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 446 pages
...put to death, though he kill them not. 16 And he that stealeth a man, an Israelite, (Deut. xxiv. 7.) and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, that wis/iat any mischief... | |
| James Grahame - 1807 - 250 pages
...authority for any thing like the slave-trade ? Is it in the following express law ? " And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put te death." — EXOD. xxi. 16. Extracts from the Parliamentary Register (1791) of the... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - 1808 - 596 pages
...man-stealing, the only theft which by the Mosaic law was punished with death ; — ' He that stealeth a inan, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.' *f Ths characteristic and badge of a true true Christian is love and good... | |
| Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...required that such thieves should be punished with death: he saith, Exod. xxi. 16, " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." See also Dcut. xxiv. 7, and 1 Tim i, 10. But since we do not buy men... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...virgins. Stealing. (r) Thou shalt not steal. (1) Thou shalt not rob thy neighbour. (t) He that stealeth a man, and selleth him ; or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. («) If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall... | |
| Abraham Booth - 1813 - 452 pages
...debauched by avarice, or blunted by habit, in approving this law of Jehovah as just: He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. Nor is there a man upon earth, not even among those who are grown hoary in... | |
| 1847 - 760 pages
...understand by slavery was strictly forbidden by the laws of Moses, Exod. ixi. 16 : " And he thatstealeth a man, and selleth him; or, if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." The chapter, from which we have cited a passage, puts in striking contrast... | |
| 1815 - 706 pages
...And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.... | |
| African Institution (London, England) - 1815 - 172 pages
...capitally; and it was to be found in Holy Scripture, in the book of E?odus, " That he that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death." In a word, to deprive a fellow, creature of his liberty, and to fix... | |
| Mathew Carey - 1817 - 476 pages
...high-handed offence, against which the Levitical law pronounced sentence of death: — " He that stealeth a man — and selleth him — or if he be found in his hand, he shall be put to death." It is painful to state — but it is my duty to state to the world that this committee... | |
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