Deuteronomy 25:11-12 Cut off her hand

 11If 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, 

This is a difficult passage but we must remember it is God breathed. 

Thompson and Poole give us some insight into understanding them.

“Possibly it was representative of similar offences and provided a standard for judgment in all such cases. Perhaps also, the law arose from the desire to protect the reproductive organs and thus obviate anything that might prevent a man leaving descendants.” (Thompson)

12you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

“Partly because of the great mischief she did to him, both to his person and posterity, and partly to deter all women from immodest and impudent carriages, and to secure that modesty which is indeed the guardian of all the virtues, as immodesty is an inlet to all vices, as the sad experience of this degenerate age shows; and therefore it is not strange that it is so severely restrained and punished.” (Matthew Poole, 1683)

Would the world be a better place today if ALL PUNISHMENTS for crimes and offenses were executed as prescribed in the book of Deuteronomy?

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