Deuteronomy 25:3
Good News Translation
He may be given as many as forty lashes, but no more; more than that would humiliate him publicly.

New Revised Standard Version
Forty lashes may be given but not more; if more lashes than these are given, your neighbor will be degraded in your sight.

Contemporary English Version
Forty lashes is the most that you can be given, because more than that might make other Israelites think you are worthless.

New American Bible
Forty lashes may be given, but no more; or else, if more lashes are added to these many blows, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

not exceed

2 Corinthians 11:24,25 Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one. . . .

Job 18:3 Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Luke 15:30 But as soon as this thy son is come, who hath devoured his substance with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Luke 18:9-12 And to some who trusted in themselves as just and despised others, he spoke also this parable: . . .

James 2:2,3 For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire: . . .

Context
Fairness and Mercy
2And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be: 3Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 11:24
Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.

Job 18:3
Why are we reputed as beasts, and counted vile before you?

Deuteronomy 25:2
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