Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 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.
Deuteronomy 29:6
Context29:6 You have eaten no bread and drunk no wine or beer – all so that you might know that I 4 am the Lord your God!
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.”
4 tc The LXX reads “that he is the
