“ Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. ”
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 ac...
Deuteronomy 25:1-3 . Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilkinson- Birch, Ancient Egyptians , i. pp. 305, 308)...
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her .
When men strive together one with another and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver...
Ordinances regarding the Infliction of Stripes, the Baising of Seed to a Brother, Modesty, and Fair Dealing 3. And not exceed ] In order to keep within the limit it was usual to inflict thirty-...
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 . LEVIRATE MARRIAGES. (5) If brethren dwell together. — This law is made the subject of a whole treatise in the Talmud, called Yebâmôth. The object of the law was held to...
This chapter is a continuation of the two previous ones in giving varied instructions. Punishments were to be righteously administered and were never to be excessive. It is interesting to notice wha...
For the honor of women, we should hope this precept was seldom violated, or the punishment made necessary.
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 dete...
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her]. Ver. 12. Cut off her hand. ] The instrument of her sin. Thus Cranmer thrust his hand, wherewith he had subscribed a recantation,...
JUSTICE TEMPERED WITH MERCY (vs.1-3) In the law courts the judges must mete out proper justice, yet not to exceed the limits of justice. If one was guilty of serious crime, it was right to have h...
Marriage of a Brother's Wife. B. C. 1451. 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of the...
Partly because of the great mischief she did to him, both to his person and posterity, and partly to deter all women from all immodest and impudent carriages, and to secure that modesty which is inde...
Regulations Concerning Fair Treatment To Another Party ( Deuteronomy 25:4-16 ). The principle in these regulations is that of fair and just treatment towards other parties. The ox who treads out...
Critical Notes.—Corporal punishment . Controv. , dispute arising from inflicted injury. Justify pronounce just, Exodus 23:7 ; Proverbs 17:15 . Deuteronomy 25:2 . Lie down . “Precisely the same...
Deuteronomy 25:5 . If brethren dwell together. Not in the same house, but near each other on the ancient lot of land which the family possessed; for Moses often speaks as though the people were al...
EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT , LEVIRATE MARRIAGES , AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . Deuteronomy 25:1-5 The first and second verses should be read as one se...
Correct Weights and Measures
Deuteronomy 19:13 ; Deuteronomy 19:21