Deuteronomy 25:2

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1 “If there is a ^adispute between men, and they come to¹ court, that the judges may judge them, and they ^bjustify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

2 then it shall be, if the wicked man ^adeserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down ^band be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.

3 ^aForty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother ^bbe humiliated in your sight.

4 ^a“You shall not muzzle an ox while it¹ treads out the grain.

Marriage Duty of the Surviving Brother

5 ^a“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a stranger outside the family; her husband’s brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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John Wesley's Notes

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Deuteronomy 25:2

Beaten - Which the Jews say was the case of all those crimes which the law commands to be punished, without expressing the kind or degree of punishment. Before his face - That the punishment may be duly inflicted, without excess or defect. And from this no person's rank or quality exempted him, if he was a delinquent.

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