Kidnapping
Stealing a person was treated as one of the gravest wrongs in Israel’s law: “He that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.” That line in Exodus 21:16 protects human life from being turned into property. The same topic points to a hard story at the end of Judges, where the men of Benjamin are told to hide in the vineyards and each “catch you every man his wife” from the dancers at Shiloh. The book presents that period as a time when everyone did what was right in his own eyes, and does not hold it up as a model.
5 verses
Exodus
And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Judges
Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.