Deuteronomy 25:12

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

In Context

11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

13Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:6-13

Marriage of a Brother's Wife. ( b. c. 1451.) 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. 6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel. 7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let… Read the whole commentary →

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