³ but it can never be more than 40. This limit is to prevent excessive beatings, which would be publicly degrading.

⁴ Don’t muzzle the ox while it is treading out your grain.^[a]

⁵ When two brothers are living together, sharing family property that hasn’t been divided, if one of them dies leaving a widow without sons, his widow must not be married to a man outside the family. The brother should marry his sister-in-law and try to have children with her in his brother’s name.^[b]