1. “Suppose there is a dispute between people and they approach the court, the judges hear their case, and declare one righteous and the other guilty.
2. Now if the guilty one deserves to be flogged, the judge is to make him lie down and be flogged before him, with the number of lashes in proportion to his guilt.
3. He may strike him 40 times but no more. Otherwise he would beat him with too many a wound beyond these, and your brother would be degraded in your eyes.