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Exod 21:25; Isa 53:5; 1Pet 2:24; where Isa 53:5 is applied to Jesus). (Deut 25:2-3) prohibits a judge from condemning a person to more than forty lashes, so Paul speaks of receiving “forty lashes less one” at the hands of Jewish authorities (2Cor 11:23).

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