Deuteronomy 25:1
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Deut 25:1
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"If there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,
Deut 25:2
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then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.
Deut 25:3
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~"He may beat him forty times {but} no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
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