Deuteronomy 25:12

Contemporary English Version

you must cut off her hand. Don't have any mercy.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

Hebrew Names Version
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

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

Lexham English Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.

English Standard Version
then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

New Century Version
you must cut off her hand. Show her no mercy.

New English Translation
then you must cut off her hand—do not pity her.

Amplified Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity [for her].

New American Standard Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye shall not spare her.

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Complete Jewish Bible
you are to cut off her hand; show no pity.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
If she does that, cut off her hand. Don't feel sorry for her.

George Lamsa Translation
Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

Good News Translation
show her no mercy; cut off her hand.

Literal Translation
then you shall cut off her palm; your eye shall not pity.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shalt thou cut of hir hande, and thine eye shal not pitie her.

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

Bible in Basic English
Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt cut of her hande, and let not thyne eye pitie her.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

King James Version (1611)
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pitie her.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.

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

Berean Standard Bible
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou schalt kitte awei `the hond of hir, nether thou schalt be bowid on hir bi ony mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

Update Bible Version
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity [her].

World English Bible
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

New King James Version
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

New Living Translation
you must cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

New Life Bible
you must cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

New Revised Standard
you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shalt thou cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Revised Standard Version
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Contextual Overview

⁵Moses said to Israel: Suppose two brothers are living on the same property, when one of them dies without having a son to carry on his name. If this happens, his widow must not marry anyone outside the family. Instead, she must marry her late husband's brother, and their first son will be the legal son of the dead man. ⁷ But suppose the brother refuses to marry the widow. She must go to a meeting of the town leaders at the town gate and say, "My husband died without having a son to carry on his name. And my husband's brother refuses to marry me so I can have a son." ⁸ The leaders will call the living brother to the town gate and try to persuade him to marry the widow. But if he doesn't change his mind and marry her, ⁹ she must go over to him while the town leaders watch. She will pull off one of his sandals and spit in his face, while saying, "That's what happens to a man who won't help provide descendants for his dead brother." ¹⁰ From then on, that man's family will be known as "the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off." ¹¹ Moses said to Israel: If two men are fighting, and the wife of one man tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the other man's private parts, ¹² you must cut off her hand. Don't have any 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
I have heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael, and so I will also bless him with many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make his family a great nation.

Genesis 21:13
but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation."

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

Psalms 83:6
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.