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 your brother should seem vile to you. Nave's Topical Index
2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Nave's Topical Index
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