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Corporal Punishment

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Corporal punishment, in the older topical-index sense, names the bodily penalties imposed under Israel's law and in the wider biblical world — scourging, beating with rods, and the various physical sanctions used for minor offenses, alongside the death-penalty modes prescribed for graver crimes. Scripture treats such physical sanctions as a real instrument of judicial and parental discipline without articulating the precise modern legal category by that name.

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