Deuteronomy 25:2-4

Living Bible

25 ^1-3 “If a man is guilty of a crime and the penalty is a beating, the judge shall command him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with up to forty stripes in proportion to the seriousness of the crime; but no more than forty stripes may be given lest the punishment seem too severe, and your brother be degraded in your eyes.

⁴ “Don’t muzzle an ox as it treads out the grain.