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Home -- Content: Series 7 (Laws) -- Translation: English -- Book: 1 (Tora) -- Part: 2 (Negative) -- Prohibition: 243 -- Text The Sharia of Moses in the TORA 243 - ABDUCTING AN ISRAELITEExodus 20:15 -- “You shall not steal.”
Leviticus 25:42 -- “For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.”
By this prohibition, it is forbidden to abduct an Israelite.* It is contained in His words in the Ten Commandments, You shall not steal. * Including an infant (Mishneh Torah, Nezikin, Hilchoth Genevah IX, 6)
The Gemara of Sanhedrin says: “Whence do we derive the prohibition of abduction? Rabbi Josiah said: From You shall not steal; Rabbi Johanan said: From they shall not be sold as slaves.* Now there is no dispute between them: one sage states the prohibition of stealing (i.e. abduction), the other sage states the prohibition of selling (the kidnapped person).”** * Lev. XXV, 42; see Neg. Comm. 258 ** Sanh. 86a (Sonc. ed. p. 569) “He who steals a human being is killed, because he is also prepared to kill him whom he steals.”* * Moreh Nebuchim III, 41
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