Translation commentary on Deuteronomy 25:12

You shall cut off her hand: the proper authorities are to make the decision. It is pointed out that only here (besides the “law of retaliation” ruling in 19.21) is mutilation prescribed as appropriate punishment.

Your eye shall have no pity: the same phrase used in 19.21.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Deuteronomy. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2000. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

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