Deuteronomy 25:3 meaning and explanation

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

Deuteronomy 25:3, Berean Standard Bible

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Moses is instructing Israel’s judges on how a sentence of flogging must be carried out. The guilty man is to lie down and be struck in the judge’s presence, but the count is capped at forty.

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