Deuteronomy 25:2-4

Good News Translation

² If the guilty one is sentenced to be beaten, the judge is to make him lie face downward and have him whipped. The number of lashes will depend on the crime he has committed. ^3 (A)He may be given as many as forty lashes, but no more; more than that would humiliate him publicly.

^4 (B)“Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.