Deuteronomy 25:3 “He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten…”

Deuteronomy 25:3

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Fortie stripes shall he cause him to haue and not past, lest if he should exceede and beate him aboue that with many stripes, thy brother should appeare despised in thy sight.

Darby Translation

With forty [stripes] shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.

Young's Literal Translation

forty [times] he doth smite him — he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these — many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

Bible in Basic English

He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.

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Cross references

“not exceed”

2 Corinthians 11:24 2 Corinthians 11:25

2 Corinthians 11:24 · BSB

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

2 Corinthians 11:25 · BSB

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

“vile unto thee”

Job 18:3 Luke 15:30 Luke 18:9–12 James 2:2 James 2:3

Job 18:3 · BSB

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

Luke 15:30 · BSB

But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Luke 18:9–12 · BSB

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

James 2:2 · BSB

Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in.

James 2:3 · BSB

If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “Here is a seat of honor,” but say to the poor man, “You must stand” or “Sit at my feet,”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

4Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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