Deuteronomy 25:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Forty lashes may be given but not more; if more lashes than these are given, your neighbor will be degraded in your sight. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Forty stripes may be given him but not more, lest, if he should be beaten with many stripes, your brother should [be treated like a beast and] seem low and worthless to you. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Give no more than forty blows. If more than that is given, your fellow Israelite would be completely disgraced in your eyes. Catholic Public Domain Version Even so, these shall not exceed the number of forty. Otherwise, your brother may depart, having been wounded shamefully before your eyes. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes. |
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’