Deuteronomy 25:11

_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 HER HUSBAND OUT OF THE HAND OF HIM THAT SMITETH HIM, AND PUTTETH FORTH HER HAND, AND TAKETH HIM BY THE SECRETS:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

This Law is apparently harsh, but its severity skews how very pleasing to God is modesty, whilst, on the other hand, He abominates indecency; for, if in the heat of a quarrel, when the agitation of the mind is an excuse for excesses, it was a crime thus heavily punished, for a woman to take hold of the private parts of a man who was not her husband, much less would God have her lasciviousness pardoned, if a woman were impelled by lust to do anything of the sort. Neither can we doubt but that the judges, in punishing obscenity, were bound to argue from the less to the greater. A threat is also added, lest the severity of the punishment should influence their minds to be tender and remiss ill inflicting it. It was indeed inexcusable effrontery, willfully to assail that part of the body, from the sight and touch of which all chaste women naturally recoil....

5-12 The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful....

EXPOSITION LAWS RELATING TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, LEVIRATE MARRIAGES, AND WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. DEUTERONOMY 25:1 The first and second verses should be read as one sentence, of which the protasis is in Deuteronomy 25:1 and the apodosis in Deuteronomy 25:2, thus: IF THERE BE A STRIFE BETWEEN MEN, AND THEY COME TO JUDGMENT, AND THEY (_i_._e_._ _the judges) give judgment on them, and justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked, then

WHEN MEN STRIVE TOGETHER, ONE WITH ANOTHER,.... Quarrel with one another, and come to blows, and strive for mastery, which shall beat, and be the best man: AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER HUSBAND OUT OF THE HAND OF HIM THAT SMITETH HIM; perceiving that his antagonist has more skill or strength, or both, for fighting, and is an more than a match for her husband, who is like to be much bruised and hurt; wherefore, to save him out of the hands of the smiter, she goes up to them to part them, or take her husband's side: AND PUTTETH FORTH HER HAND, AND TAKETH HIM BY THE SECRETS; or privy parts; in Hebrew his "shameful" parts x, which through shame are hidden, and modesty forbids to express in proper terms; and such is the purity of the Hebrew language, that no obscene words are used in it; for which reason, among others, it is called the holy tongue. This immodest ac...

21. VARIOUS LAWS AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Corporal punishment (Deuteronomy 25:1)_ 2. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox (Deuteronomy 25:4) 3. The brother-in-law's marriage (Deuteronomy 25:5) 4. Concerning a sinful freedom (Deuteronomy 25:11) 5. Concerning divers weights and measures (Deuteronomy 25:13) 6. Concerning the conquest of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:17

DEUTERONOMY 25:1. 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). The present writer saw it in Egypt in 1888; see Exodus 21:20 (showing that a slave was sometimes beaten to death), Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 19:29. Deuteronomy 25:3. The forty stripes became thirty- nine (2 Corinthians 11:24) i

Of Reckless Assault The woman who, even to help her husband, grasps the secrets of another Israelite wrestling with him shall have her hand cut off. Peculiar to D, and in the Sg. address with _brother_as in other Sg. passages; but with an opening, and an accumulation of conditions similar to those in other laws probably borrowed by D. The additions may be the superfluous _a man and his brother_(Deuteronomy 25:11, R.V. _one with another_) and _thine eye shall not pity_(Deuteronomy 25:12, cp. Deuteronomy 7:16). _Strive_, rather ARE WRESTLING (as in E, Exodus 21:22; cp....

(19) PROTECTION FROM ANOTHER'S WIFE (Deuteronomy 25:11-12) 11 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; 12 then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. THOUGHT QUESTIONS 25:11, 12 444. How prudish to fail to translate a plain word meaning testicales! Why do this? What is wrong with facts? 445. Why such a stringent measure in this action? AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION 25:11, 12 11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him who is beating him, and puts out her hand, and seizes the other man by the private parts; 12 Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her. COM

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-nine stripes: see 2 Corinthians 11:24. The milder beating was with a rod. A severer form of this punishment was scourging, inflicted with a whip of thongs into which pieces of iron were inserted. In the time of our Lord beating was inflicted in the synagogue upon ecclesiastical offenders: see on Matthew 10:17; Acts 26:11.. While the culprit was being beaten the words in Deuteronomy 28:58;...