Deuteronomy 19:13; Deuteronomy 19:21
This is the only mutilation prescribed by the Law of Moses, unless we except the retaliation prescribed as a punishment for the infliction on anoth...
Deuteronomy 25:1-3 . Another of Dt.'s humanitarian laws. Punishment by the bastinado among the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians was common (see Wilki...
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, a...
Ordinances regarding the Infliction of Stripes, the Baising of Seed to a Brother, Modesty, and Fair Dealing 3. And not exceed ] In order to kee...
Deuteronomy 25:5-10 . LEVIRATE MARRIAGES. (5) If brethren dwell together. — This law is made the subject of a whole treatise in the Talmud, cal...
This chapter is a continuation of the two previous ones in giving varied instructions. Punishments were to be righteously administered and were neve...
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 magis...
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 hi...
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 w...
Marriage of a Brother's Wife. B. C. 1451....
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 c...
Regulations Concerning Fair Treatment To Another Party ( Deuteronomy 25:4-16 ). The principle in these regulations is that of fair and just treat...
Critical Notes.—Corporal punishment . Controv. , dispute arising from inflicted injury. Justify pronounce just, Exodus 23:7 ; Proverbs 17:15 ....
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; f...
EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT , LEVIRATE MARRIAGES , AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . Deuteronomy 25:1-5 Th...
Correct Weights and Measures
then thou, the constituted authority, shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. This precept was here inserted in order to guard agains...
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.