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Deuteronomy 25:11
“When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 25
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then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, "So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.
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His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.
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When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;
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then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
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You shall not have in your bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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