0 With how many stripes may a wicked man be beaten?

When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling Ezekiel 3:20

Trivia: According to Ezekiel 16, who spread his skirt over a naked Jerusalem?

With how many stripes may a wicked man be beaten?


Forty

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. Deuteronomy 25:2
If the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee. Deuteronomy 25:2

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