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A new Mishna is introduced discussing one who kidnaps a Jew. Is that person liable immediately, or not until he takes that person into his home? Or until he makes the Jew work? Or if he also kidnaps the person's son? What about kidnapping a half-slave? The rabbis consider the gender of the slave, the gender of the kidnapper, the value of one's work. They also wonder about the status of a fetus sold while it is inside of its pregnant mother.
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