9 Bible Verses about Beating People

If men strive together and one smite another with a stone or with his fist, so that he die not, but lieth in bed:

"He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it.

"If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it shall be avenged.

And he that smiteth his father or his mother, shall die for it.

burning for burning, wound for wound and stripe for stripe.

And if the trespasser be worthy of stripes, then let the judge cause to take him down and to beat him before his face according to his trespass, unto a certain number. Forty stripes he shall give him and not pass: lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes.

in death often. Of the Jews, five times received I, every time, forty stripes, save one.