Deuteronomy 25:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
25 3 The beating of the offenders. 5 To raise up seed to the kinsmen. 11 In what case a woman’s hand must be cut off. 13 Of just weights and measures. 19 To destroy the Amalekites.
1 When there shall be strife between men, and they shall come unto judgment, [a]and sentence shall be given upon them, and the righteous shall be justified, and the wicked condemned,
2 Then if so be the wicked be worthy to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down, [b]and to be beaten before his face, according to his trespass unto a certain number.
3 [c]Forty stripes shall he cause him to have, and not past, lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear despised in thy sight.
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- Deuteronomy 25:1 Whether there be a plaintiff or none, the magistrates ought to try our faults, and punish according to the crime.
- Deuteronomy 25:2 When the crime deserveth not death.
- Deuteronomy 25:3 The Jews of superstition afterward took one away, 2 Cor. 11:24.
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