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. In reading the over 600 laws in the Old Testament, one will come across some gems like this.   You have to wonder why God would have made such a law.  I'm sure that, in an effort to spiritualize something that is just stinking hilarious, theologians have concocted just as many creative interpretations as they have for Zipporah and the bloody foreskin (Ex 4.25).  One thing that always makes me laugh is knowing that God saw something like this coming and made a law to prevent it. There must be something for us to learn from this [...]