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Deuteronomy 25:11

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If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

KJV

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 25

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

If two men are fighting

on Deuteronomy 25:11-16

The cut hand of verse 12 is the only mutilation the law prescribes outside the like for like of Leviticus 24:19-20. The weights follow, a heavy one to buy with and a light one to sell by, and Leviticus 19:35-36, Amos 8:5 and Micah 6:10-11 condemn the same fraud. Honest scales carry the promise of long life in the land, as honouring parents does at Exodus 20:12.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

When men strive together, one with another,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The punishment was that her hand should be cut off; and the magistrates must not pretend to be more merciful than God: Thy eye shall not pity her. Perhaps our Saviour alludes to this law when he commands us to cut off the right hand that offends us, or is an occasion of sin to us.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

And it will be entitled in Yisroel, the house of the divestiture of the shoe.
Targum · Onkelos Deuteronomy 25:10, via Sefaria, Metsudah Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009 [with Onkelos translation]

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יִנָּצ֨וּthey will be struggling together

    yinatzuH5327 →

  • אֲנָשִׁ֤יםmen

    ʾanashimH582 →566 times

  • יַחְדָּו֙together

    yachdavH3162 →141 times

  • אִ֣ישׁanyone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • וְאָחִ֔יוand countryman his

    veachivH251 →630 times

  • וְקָֽרְבָה֙and she will draw near

    vekarevahH7126 →280 times

  • אֵ֣שֶׁת[the] wife of

    ʾeshetH802 →781 times

  • הָֽאֶחָ֔דthe one [man]

    haechadH259 →971 times

  • לְהַצִּ֥ילto rescue

    lehatzilH5337 →212 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אִישָׁ֖הּhusband her

    ʾishahH376 →1663 times

  • מִיַּ֣דfrom [the] hand of

    miyadH3027 →1618 times

  • מַכֵּ֑הוּ[the] [one who] is striking him

    makehuH5221 →499 times

  • וְשָׁלְחָ֣הand she will stretch out

    veshalechahH7971 →845 times

  • יָדָ֔הּhand her

    yadahH3027 →1618 times

  • וְהֶחֱזִ֖יקָהand she will take hold

    vehechezikahH2388 →291 times

  • בִּמְבֻשָֽׁיו׃on genitals his

    bimvushavH4016 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Timothy 2:9

    Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 3:3–5

      Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

    • Titus 2:3–5

      Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

    • Jeremiah 4:30

      And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain;…

    • Psalms 149:4

      For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.

    • Isaiah 3:16

      The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

  • Through

    Romans 3:8

    Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

    it leads to

    • Romans 6:1

      What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

    • Romans 6:15

      What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

    • Romans 7:7

      What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 25 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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