Deuteronomy 25:3
King James VersionSource notes
“Forty 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.”
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
5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
6And it shall be, the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.