25:11 If two men 8 get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, 9
1 tn Heb “knock down after you.”
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.
4 tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”
3 tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.
4 tn Heb “came out to meet.”
5 sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.
4 tn Heb “a man and his brother.”
5 tn Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the injured man. The level of specificity given this term in modern translations varies: “private parts” (NAB, NIV, CEV); “genitals” (NASB, NRSV, TEV); “sex organs” (NCV); “testicles” (NLT).
5 tn Heb “and it will be.”
6 tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”
7 tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”