 | 1833 - 578 pages
...do; but they would not, we presume, wish the laws of Israel revived, by which it was decreed, that " he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." And if Revelation has not abolished slavery positively in direct terms, it has done so in effect, commanding... | |
 | George Bourne - Slavery - 1833 - 228 pages
...voluntary sales of servants by themselves, as described in 2Gen. xlvii. 19 — 23, 3Ex. xxi. i And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. — Ex. xxi. 16. * Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and out land... | |
 | John Rankin - Slavery - 1833 - 138 pages
...penalty which the Almighty has attached to the crime of depriving an innocent person of his liberty.—' He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.' And it ought to be remembered that this awful penalty was annnexed to the crime of enslaving the innocent,... | |
 | John D. Paxton - History - 1833 - 228 pages
...servitude. The following laws were designed to limit it, or open a door of freedom to those in bondage. " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." Ex. xxi. 16. This passage made it death to steal a person and sell him, or be found in possession of... | |
 | Hamlet Wood - Slavery - 1833 - 116 pages
...God is, Thau shalt not steal, and we find in Exodus, chap. xxi. verse 16, the foll&wing law — "And he that stealeth a Man, and selleth him, or if he...found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death" — a Law intended no doubt not only to restrain a particular people. but for the guidance and direction... | |
 | George Burder, Joseph Hughes - Bible - 1833 - 1134 pages
...he may die. 15 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...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. 18 And if men strive... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1833 - 590 pages
...do; but they would not, we presume, wfci the laws of Israel revived, by which it was decreed, tnat " he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he sfail surely be put to death:." And 'if Revelation has not aLolisned slavery positively in direct terms,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...land. But no length of time can justify robbery and murder, and no English law can abrogate the Divine law : " He that stealeth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death." Even though the statutes of England may be adduced to justify... | |
 | Baptists - 1833 - 624 pages
...10.) that is, those who had violated the law of Moses on that subject: •' He that stealeth a man, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death," Exod. xxi. 16. Admitting that your holding " men " in bondage as your property, is of equal enormity... | |
 | 1833 - 650 pages
...i. 10.) that is, those who had violated the law of Moses on that subject: " He that stealeth a man, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be putto death," Exod. xxi. 16. Admitting that your holding " men " in bondage as your property, is of... | |
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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. 
