Deuteronomy 25:12

Amplified Bible

then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity [for her].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
you are to cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

Hebrew Names Version
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

King James Version
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Lexham English Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.

English Standard Version
then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

New Century Version
you must cut off her hand. Show her no mercy.

New English Translation
then you must cut off her hand—do not pity her.

New American Standard Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then thou shalt cut off her hande: thine eye shall not spare her.

Legacy Standard Bible
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
you are to cut off her hand; show no pity.

Darby Translation
thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare.

Easy-to-Read Version
If she does that, cut off her hand. Don't feel sorry for her.

George Lamsa Translation
Then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

Good News Translation
show her no mercy; cut off her hand.

Literal Translation
then you shall cut off her palm; your eye shall not pity.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shalt thou cut of hir hande, and thine eye shal not pitie her.

American Standard Version
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

Bible in Basic English
Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt cut of her hande, and let not thyne eye pitie her.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

King James Version (1611)
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pitie her.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.

English Revised Version
then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

Berean Standard Bible
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou schalt kitte awei `the hond of hir, nether thou schalt be bowid on hir bi ony mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

Update Bible Version
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thy eye shall not pity [her].

World English Bible
then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.

New King James Version
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her.

New Living Translation
you must cut off her hand. Show her no pity.

New Life Bible
you must cut off her hand. Do not show pity.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shalt thou cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity.

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

Revised Standard Version
then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

Contextual Overview

⁵"If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. ⁶"It shall be that her firstborn [son] will be given the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel. ⁷"But if the man does not want to marry his brother's [widowed] wife, then she shall go up to the gate [of the city, where court is held] to the elders, and say, 'My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother's name in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother.' ⁸"Then the elders of his city will summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, 'I do not want to marry her,' ⁹then his brother's widow shall approach him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, 'So it is done to that man who does not build up his brother's household.' ¹⁰"In Israel his [family] name shall be, 'The house of him whose sandal was removed.' ¹¹"If [two] men, a man and his countryman, are fighting and the wife of one approaches to rescue her husband from the man who is striking him, and she reaches out with her hand and grabs the aggressor's genitals, ¹²then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity [for her].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 19:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:16 - thine eye

Cross-References

Genesis 17:20
"As for Ishmael, I have heard and listened to you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will greatly multiply him [through his descendants]. He will be the father of twelve princes (chieftains, sheiks), and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:13
"And I will also make a nation of [Ishmael] the son of the maid, because he is your descendant."

Genesis 25:10
the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Psalms 83:6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Of Moab and the Hagrites,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then thou shall cut off her hand,.... Which was to be done not by the man that strove with her husband, or by any bystander, but by the civil magistrate or his order. This severity was used to deter women from such an immodest as well as injurious action, who on such an occasion are very passionate and inconsiderate. Our Lord is thought to refer to this law, Matthew 5:30; though the Jewish writers interpret this not of actual cutting off the hand, but of paying a valuable consideration, a price put upon it; so Jarchi; and Aben Ezra compares it with the law of retaliation, "eye for eye", Exodus 21:24; which they commonly understand of paying a price for the both, c. lost and who adds, if she does not redeem her hand (i.e. by a price) it must be cut off:

thine eye shall not pity [her]; on account of the tenderness of her sex, or because of the plausible excuse that might be made for her action, being done hastily and in a passion, and out of affection to her husband; but these considerations were to have no place with the magistrate, who was to order the punishment inflicted, either in the strict literal sense, or by paying a sum of money.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the only mutilation prescribed by the Law of Moses, unless we except the retaliation prescribed as a punishment for the infliction on another of bodily injuries Leviticus 24:19-20. The act in question was probably not rare in the times and countries for which the Law of Moses was designed. It is of course to be understood that the act was willful, and that the prescribed punishment would be inflicted according to the sentence of the judges.