“If men quarrel and one strikes another with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies must be put to death.

“If a man strikes his male or his female servant with a staff and the servant dies at his hand, he must be punished.

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

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

then it shall be that if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with a [certain] number of stripes in proportion to his offense. He may have him beaten forty times, but no more. He is not to be beaten with more stripes than these and he is not to be degraded [that is, treated like an animal] in your sight.

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