LEV355 Abduction is stealing a human being. Because the Torah elsewhere prohibits stealing goods [this verse] the Rabbis, who assume that there is nothing superfluous in God's teachings in the Torah, interpreted the prohibition against stealing in the Ten Commandments [Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17] as a ban against kidnapping. [Mekhilta. Mishpatim, 5.] Couched between the two commandments against murder and adultery, both capital offenses, kidnapping too was held to be a capital offense. [Exodus 21:16] (By Laurie L. Levenson, "Judaism and CriminalJustice"