Deut 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 secret parts,
12 then thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not pity her.
Any light on this?
Is this talking about two Israelites fighting? Or a non-Israelite. Why the severe penalty? Jael caught off an enemy's head and was hailed, but a woman here grabs the privates of an enemy and is punished?
What is the context? Domestic dispute between two Israelites? Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense.
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 secret parts,
12 then thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not pity her.
Any light on this?
Is this talking about two Israelites fighting? Or a non-Israelite. Why the severe penalty? Jael caught off an enemy's head and was hailed, but a woman here grabs the privates of an enemy and is punished?
What is the context? Domestic dispute between two Israelites? Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense.