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then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
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A Uniquely Severe Punishment
Commentators note that this is the only prescribed mutilation in the Law of Moses, aside from the 'eye for an eye' principle. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that the extreme severity of the punishment was intended to be a powerful deterrent against an act considered both deeply immodest and injurious.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 25:5–10. LEVIRATE MARRIAGES.
If brethren dwell together. — This law is ma…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then thou shall cut off her hand Which was to be done not by the man that strove with her husband, or by any bystand…
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The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful.
