24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, 1 and regards him as mere property 2 and sells him, that kidnapper 3 must die. In this way you will purge 4 evil from among you.
1 tn Heb “from his brothers, from the sons of Israel.” The terms “brothers” and “sons of Israel” are in apposition; the second defines the first more specifically.
2 tn Or “and enslaves him.”
3 tn Heb “that thief.”
4 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the word “purge” in Deut 19:19.
5 tn The use of the plural (“you”) in the Hebrew text suggests that Moses and Aaron are both in view here, since both had rebelled at some time or other, if not at Meribah Kadesh then elsewhere (cf. Num 20:24; 27:14).
6 tn Heb “did not esteem me holy.” Cf. NIV “did not uphold my holiness”; NLT “failed to demonstrate my holiness.”