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SCOURGING, corporal punishment by stripes. Prescribed in the Mosaic law for fornication, Lev. 19:20; Deut. 22:18; for other offenses, Deut. 25:2. Forty stripes the maximum limit, Deut. 25:3. Fatal, Job 9:23; of servants avenged, Ex. 21:20. Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of the Christians, Matt. 10:17. Of children, see Children, Correction of; Punishment.

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