Deuteronomy 25:1
King James VersionSource notes
“If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.”
Context
1If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
2And it shall be, if the wicked man 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.
3Forty stripes he may give him, not exceed: lest, he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out