"Forty stripes he may give him, {and} not exceed: lest, {if} he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes…" — Deuteronomy 25:3

Deuteronomy 25:3 · KJV

“Forty stripes he may give him, {and} not exceed: lest, {if} he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.”

— Deuteronomy 25:3

Verse 2

And it shall be, if the wicked man {be} worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

Verse 4

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out {the corn}. {treadeth...: Heb. thresheth}

Deuteronomy 25 — Context

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that {the judges} may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And it shall be, if the wicked man {be} worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.

Forty stripes he may give him, {and} not exceed: lest, {if} he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out {the corn}. {treadeth...: Heb. thresheth}

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her. {her husband's...: or, her next kinsman}

Cross References

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, {and} reputed vile in your sight?

James 2:2-3

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; {assembly: Gr. synagogue}

Luke 15:30

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Of the Jews five times received I forty {stripes} save one.

Luke 18:9-12

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: {that...: or, as being righteous}