Deuteronomy 25:3
They are not to receive more than forty lashes. More than that would be to publicly humiliate them.
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In Context
4Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Cross References
Luke 15:30Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for him!’
2 Corinthians 11:24Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes less one.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 25:2-5
Stripes Not to Exceed Forty. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then… Read the whole commentary →