Forty stripes. To ensure obedience to this law, tradition made the stripes 39, and gave three strokes with. thong of thirteen cords. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:24.
vile. mean, or lightly esteemed.
Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 25:3
Deuteronomy 25:3
3 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.