Deuteronomy 25:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Forty lashes may be given but not more; if more lashes than these are given, your neighbor will be degraded in your sight.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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

³ 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)

³ 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

³ 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

³ 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

³ Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 25:3 Cross References

Job 18:3

Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fatted calf for him!’