KJV 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.
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Deuteronomy 25:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
WEB World English Bible
Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 25
1 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.
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.
3 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.
4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out [the corn].
5 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.
6 And it shall be, [that] the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother [which is] dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
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אַרְבָּעִ֥יםH705 · ar.ba.imfortyיַכֶּ֖נּוּH5221 · na.khahto smiteלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotיֹסִ֑יףH3254 · ya.saphto add: againפֶּן־H6435 · penlestיֹסִ֨יףH3254 · ya.saphto add: againלְהַכֹּת֤וֹH5221 · na.khahto smiteעַל־H5921 · aluponאֵ֙לֶּה֙H428 · el.lehtheseמַכָּ֣הH4347 · mak.kahwoundרַבָּ֔הH7227 · ravmanyוְנִקְלָ֥הH7034 · qa.lahto dishonorאָחִ֖יךָH251 · achbrother: male-siblingלְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ סH5869 · a.yineye
Cross-references
Job 18:3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?James 2:2-3For 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;Luke 15:30But 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 11:24-25Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one.Luke 18:9-12And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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