Bible in Basic English
"He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you."
— Deuteronomy 25:3, Bible in Basic English
“Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.”
If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.
And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.
He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.
Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
If brothers are living together and one of them, at his death, has no son, the wife of the dead man is not to be married outside the family to another man: let her husband's brother go in to her and make her his wife, doing as it is right for a brother-in-law to do.
Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.