Punishment: Minor offenses: Scourging

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

A rebuke cuts into a man of discernment deeper than a hundred lashes cut into a fool.

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Lashes and wounds scour evil, and beatings cleanse the inmost parts.

So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

And wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

…the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.

At once those who were about to interrogate Paul stepped back, and the commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put a Roman citizen in chains.