Forty : Administered In Punishing Criminals

Deuteronomy 25:3

• Forty

Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

2 Corinthians 11:24

• Forty

Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

Job 18:3

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.