between. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, and Syriac, read "or between".
stroke. punishment. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 17:8
Deuteronomy 17:8
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;