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30 Physical punishment cleanses away evil;[a]
    such discipline purifies the heart.

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  1. 20:30 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

30 The blows of a wound will cleanse evil,
    as will[a] beatings of the innermost part.[b]

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  1. Proverbs 20:30 Hebrew “and”
  2. Proverbs 20:30 Literally “parts of the inmost”