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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 1 - The 248 Positive Commandments of the Tora
224 - WHIPPING TRANSGRESSORS OF CERTAIN COMMANDMENTS
A complete list of the commandments for the violation of which whipping is the penalty is to be found in “Mishneh Torah”.*
Scripture speaks of administering forty strokes (Deut 25: 3); the sages, however, set thirty-nine as the maximum for any one transgression. According to Maimonides, this provision was intended to keep the judges from ignoring the prohibition, Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight. (Deuteronomy 25:3)*