1. If there be a controversy between men, and they call upon the judges: they shall give the prize of justice to him whom they perceive to be just: and him whom they find to be wicked, they shall condemn of wickedness.
2. And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be:
3. Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.
4. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out thy corn on the floor.