25:11 If two men 2 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, 3
1 tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”
2 tn Heb “a man and his brother.”
3 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).
4 tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
5 tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
6 tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”