And the elders of that city shall take the man, and chastise him. Not with words, but blows. Jarchi interprets it of beating, and so does the Talmud x; and both the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it,
"shall beat him;''
that is, with the beating or scourging of forty stripes, save one.
x T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 46. 1.