Deuteronomy 25:1-4 - Fairness And Mercy

¹ If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust. ² And it was if the unjust be the son of smiting and the judge caused him to fall down and beat him before his face in proportion to his fault, by a number. ³ Forty he shall beat him; He shall not add, lest he shall add to strike him above them with much beating, and thy brother was despised before thine eyes.

⁴ Thou shalt not muzzle the ox treading.