A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
According to *Deuteronomy 24:7, kidnapping is a capital offence and the *sages taught that the eighth of the *Ten Commandments referred to kidnapping rather than stealing property. In fact, the conditions for obtaining a conviction for kidnapping were so stringent that *capital punishment was most unlikely.
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