Deuteronomy 25.11, 12

“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.”

Such an assault as is described here is an attack on the very idea of life – a threat to a man’s legacy.

Even though her husband may be getting the worse of this scuffle, a woman must not think to attack her husband’s assailant by seeking to injure his private parts. He is, after all, still a man, and his private parts represent his ability to fulfill his God-given mandate to fill the earth. She must not take it in hand to jeopardize his ability to do that.

Presumably, there must have been other ways to come to the defense of her husband, for the penalty for this violation is severe. God’s Law has a view to preserving the generations to come, even when we may lose sight of such an interest.

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