It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 25 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The Mosaic regulation of judicial beating by a fixed number of stripes ('many stripes' laid on them) supplies the legal-cultural backdrop for the flogging, though here the Roman magistrates' beating is lawless. Conceptual link to the stripes motif.
Low confidenceThe Deuteronomic law limiting and proportioning the number of stripes to the offense supplies the legal idiom behind 'many stripes... few stripes.' Availability for the beating imagery, though not developed verbally.
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