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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Adam Clarke

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Deuteronomy 25:2

The judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face - This precept is literally followed in China; the culprit receives in the presence of the magistrate the punishment which the law directs to be inflicted. Thus then justice is done, for the magistrate sees that the letter of the law is duly fulfilled, and that the officers do not transgress it, either by indulgence on the one hand, or severity on the other. The culprit receives nothing more nor less than what justice requires.

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