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An unused wooden rod rests on rough cloth beside an empty bench.
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Deuteronomy 25:3

Forty Blows and No More

Judge Justly and Remember the Journey · Deuteronomy 25

Story guide: The unused rod accompanies the limit of forty blows, protecting a brother from degradation through excess punishment.

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3He may strike him forty times, but no more, lest he go on to strike him with many more blows than these and your brother be degraded before your eyes.

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