Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 17:9 
Context17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
Deuteronomy 25:3
Context25:3 The judge 1 may sentence him to forty blows, 2 but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite 3 with contempt.
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the judge) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “Forty blows he may strike him”; however, since the judge is to witness the punishment (v. 2) it is unlikely the judge himself administered it.
3 tn Heb “your brothers” but not limited only to an actual sibling; cf. NAB) “your kinsman”; NRSV, NLT “your neighbor.”
