Deuteronomy 25:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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. Treatment of Oxen.

Cross References

Job 18:3

Why are we accounted like beasts, equal to them in your sight?

Luke 15:30

But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’