申命记 25:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你就要砍掉那婦人的手；你的眼不可顧惜。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
就 要 砍 断 妇 人 的 手 ， 眼 不 可 顾 惜 他 。

Contextual Overview

⁵ If two brothers are living together, and one of them dies without having a son, his widow must not marry someone outside her husband's family. Her husband's brother must marry her, which is his duty to her as a brother-in-law. ⁶ The first son she has counts as the son of the dead brother so that his name will not be forgotten in Israel. ⁷ But if a man does not want to marry his brother's widow, she should go to the elders at the town gate. She should say, "My brother-in-law will not carry on his brother's name in Israel. He refuses to do his duty for me." ⁸ Then the elders of the town must call for the man and talk to him. But if he is stubborn and says, "I don't want to marry her," ⁹ the woman must go up to him in front of the leaders. She must take off one of his sandals and spit in his face and say, "This is for the man who won't continue his brother's family!" ¹⁰ Then that man's family shall be known in Israel as the Family of the Unsandaled. ¹¹ If two men are fighting and one man's wife comes to save her husband from his attacker, grabbing the attacker by his sex organs, ¹² you must cut off her hand. Show her no mercy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 19:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:16 - thine eye

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 21:13
I will also make the descendants of Ishmael into a great nation because he is your son, too."

Genesis 25:10
So Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah in the same field that he had bought from the Hittites.

Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Psalms 83:6
the families of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then thou shall cut off her hand,.... Which was to be done not by the man that strove with her husband, or by any bystander, but by the civil magistrate or his order. This severity was used to deter women from such an immodest as well as injurious action, who on such an occasion are very passionate and inconsiderate. Our Lord is thought to refer to this law, Matthew 5:30; though the Jewish writers interpret this not of actual cutting off the hand, but of paying a valuable consideration, a price put upon it; so Jarchi; and Aben Ezra compares it with the law of retaliation, "eye for eye", Exodus 21:24; which they commonly understand of paying a price for the both, c. lost and who adds, if she does not redeem her hand (i.e. by a price) it must be cut off:

thine eye shall not pity [her]; on account of the tenderness of her sex, or because of the plausible excuse that might be made for her action, being done hastily and in a passion, and out of affection to her husband; but these considerations were to have no place with the magistrate, who was to order the punishment inflicted, either in the strict literal sense, or by paying a sum of money.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the only mutilation prescribed by the Law of Moses, unless we except the retaliation prescribed as a punishment for the infliction on another of bodily injuries Leviticus 24:19-20. The act in question was probably not rare in the times and countries for which the Law of Moses was designed. It is of course to be understood that the act was willful, and that the prescribed punishment would be inflicted according to the sentence of the judges.