Deuteronomy 25:12
Good News Translation
show her no mercy; cut off her hand.

New Revised Standard Version
you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Contemporary English Version
you must cut off her hand. Don't have any mercy.

New American Bible
you shall chop off her hand; show no pity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Deuteronomy 19:13,21 Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee. . . .

Context
Widowhood and Marriage
11If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets, 12Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:2
And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

Deuteronomy 19:13
Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Deuteronomy 25:11
If two men have words together, and one begin to fight against the other, and the other's wife willing to deliver her husband out of the hand of the stronger, shall put forth her hand, and take him by the secrets,

Deuteronomy 25:11
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