This Is A Fair Question

[Huggy Bear]

What you're being is vague, are you suggesting that scripture really means one can't sell stolen slaves?

That's what it says, isn't it?  That a person caught selling a stolen man is subject to punishment.  Biblically, slavery is a-ok....stealing slaves, otoh, is not.  That's pedestrian as all get out.  Slave owners have always thought poorly of other slave owners who steal their human property.

Are you stupid?

THOU SHALT NOT STEAL is one of the 10 commandments, so if the man is someones property as you say, then that already covered under the 10 commandments.

However "he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death." is referring to kidnapping and selling someone into servitude or forcing them into servitude.