Deuteronomy 25:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:

³ Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

⁴ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.