9 Bible Verses about Beating People

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Exodus 21:18

If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

Exodus 21:20

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.

Exodus 21:25

Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

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.

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Proverbs 17:26

To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.

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1 Kings 14:15

And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath.

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