2 Corinthians 11:24
Good News Translation
Five times I was given the thirty-nine lashes by the Jews;

New Revised Standard Version
Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Contemporary English Version
Five times my own people gave me 39 lashes with a whip.

New American Bible
Five times at the hands of the Jews I received forty lashes minus one.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one.

forty.

Deuteronomy 25:2,3 And if they see that the offender be worthy of stripes: they shall lay him down, and shall cause him to be beaten before them. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be: . . .

Matthew 10:17 But beware of men. For they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

Mark 13:9 But look to yourselves. For they shall deliver you Up to councils: and in the synagogues you shall be beaten: and you shall stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony unto them.

Context
Paul's Suffering and Service
23They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. 24Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one. 25Thrice was I beaten with rods: once I was stoned: thrice I suffered shipwreck: a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:3
Yet so, that they exceed not the number of forty: lest thy brother depart shamefully torn before thy eyes.

Luke 12:47
And that servant, who knew the will of his lord and prepared not himself and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

2 Corinthians 11:23
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