Deuteronomy 25:3

A Conservative Version

He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

Cross References

Job 18:3

Why are we counted as beasts, [and] have become unclean in your sight?

Luke 15:30

But when this thy son came, who has devoured thy living with harlots, thou killed for him the fatted calf.