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Deuteronomy 25:2-4
Lexham English Bible

2 then it will happen if the guilty one deserves beating,[a] then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him before him,[b] according to[c] the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense.[d] 3 He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows,[e] and your countryman[f] would be[g] degraded before your eyes.

4 “You shall not muzzle an ox when he is threshing.[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 25:2 Literally “is a son of beating”
  2. Deuteronomy 25:2 Literally “to the face of him”
  3. Deuteronomy 25:2 Literally “as”
  4. Deuteronomy 25:2 Literally “as is sufficient/necessary, with respect to number, for his wickedness/wicked behavior”
  5. Deuteronomy 25:3 Hebrew “blow”
  6. Deuteronomy 25:3 Or “brother”
  7. Deuteronomy 25:3 Hebrew “is”
  8. Deuteronomy 25:4 Literally “at his threshing”
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