Scripture
“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.”
Deuteronomy 25:3
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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.
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