9 Bible Verses about Beating People

“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

“If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.

“He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

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

then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt. He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes.