9 Bible Verses about Beating People

"If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

"Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.