Bible verse
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
Deuteronomy 25:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 25.
8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
10 And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
11 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,
12 you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
13 You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
14 You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
15 You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16 For everyone who behaves dishonestly in regard to these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
KJV
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity [her].
ASV
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.
ERV
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.
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