Matthew Henry · Verses 5–12
The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful.
Deuteronomy 25:11
When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and takes him by his private parts,
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WEBBE
When men strive against each other, and the wife of one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and grabs him by his private parts,
BSB
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
KJV
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
ASV
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 secrets;
BBE
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;
Original Hebrew
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כִּי־
ki-
if
H3588
יִנָּצוּ
yi·na·tzu
they will be struggling together
H5327
אֲנָשִׁים
'a·na·shim
men
H582
יַחְדָּו
yach·dav
together
H3162
אִישׁ
'ish
anyone
H376
וְאָחִיו
ve·'a·chiv
and countryman his
H251
וְקָרְבָה
ve·ka·re·vah
and she will draw near
H7126
אֵשֶׁת
'e·shet
[the] wife of
H802
הָאֶחָד
ha·'e·chad
the one [man]
H259
לְהַצִּיל
le·ha·tzil
to rescue
H5337
אֶת־
'et-
(marks the object)
H853
אִישָׁהּ
'i·shah
husband her
H376
מִיַּד
mi·yad
from [the] hand of
H3027
מַכֵּהוּ
ma·ke·hu
[the] [one who] is striking him
H5221
וְשָׁלְחָה
ve·sha·le·chah
and she will stretch out
H7971
יָדָהּ
ya·dah
hand her
H3027
וְהֶחֱזִיקָה
ve·he·che·zi·kah
and she will take hold
H2388
בִּמְבֻשָׁיו
bim·vu·shav
on genitals his
H4016
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