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25 (A)If there is a dispute between men and they go to court for judgment, and [a]the judges judge their case, (B)and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked, then it shall be if the wicked man [b](C)deserves to be struck, the judge shall then make him lie down and be struck in his presence with the number of stripes according to his [c]guilt. (D)He may strike him forty times but no more, lest he strike him with many more stripes than these and your brother be (E)dishonored in your eyes.

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  1. Deuteronomy 25:1 Lit they judge them
  2. Deuteronomy 25:2 Lit is a son of beating
  3. Deuteronomy 25:2 Or wickedness

25 “When a legal dispute takes place[a] between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, then it will happen if the guilty one deserves beating,[b] then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him before him,[c] according to[d] the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense.[e] 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,[f] and your countryman[g] would be[h] degraded before your eyes.

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Footnotes

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