# The judge may give him forty blows "The judge may say that they should beat the guilty person 40 times" # but he may not exceed that number "but the judge may not order them to beat him more than 40 times" # for if he should exceed that number and beat him with many more blows "because if the judge orders them to beat him many more than 40 times" # then your fellow Israelite would be humiliated before your eyes "then the judge would humiliate your fellow Israelite in front of all of the people of Israel" # humiliated before your eyes "humiliated, and you would all see it"