Deuteronomy 25:12

thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11And if men should strive together, a man with his brother, and the wife of one of them should advance to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smites him, and she should stretch forth her hand, and take hold of his private parts;

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

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:2and the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, then thou shalt smite them: thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt not make a covenant with them, neither shall ye pity them:

Deuteronomy 19:13Thine eye shall not spare him; so shalt thou purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be 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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