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his garments. "If a man, they covered him in front; if a woman, before and
behind." The words of Rabbi Judah. But the Sages say "a man was stoned
naked, but the woman was not stoned naked."

4. The place of stoning was two men high. One of the witnesses thrust him
down on his loins. If he turned on his heart, the witness must turn him on
his loins. If he died with that thrust it was finished; but if not, the
second (witness) took the stone, and cast it upon his heart. If he died
with that blow, the stoning was finished. But if not, he was stoned by all
Israel, as is said, "The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to
put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people."(397) "All
who were stoned were hung up." The words of Rabbi Eliezer. But the Sages
say, "none were hung up, save the blasphemer and the idolater." "The man
is to be hung with his face toward the people, but the woman with her face
toward the wood." The words of Rabbi Eliezer. But the Sages say, "the man
was hung up, but they do not hang up a woman." Rabbi Eleazar said to them,
"and did not Simon, the son of Shatach, hang women in Askalon?" They said
to him, "he hung up eighty women (witches), and two could not be judged,
in one day." "How did they hang him?" "They sunk a beam in the ground, and
a traverse beam proceeded from it, and they bound his hands, one over the
other, and hung him up" (by them). R. Jose said, "the beam was inclined
against the wall, and he was hung upon it, just as the butchers do." And
they loosed him immediately afterward. "But if he was out all night?" "It
was a transgression of a negative command, as is said, 'His body shall not
remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that
day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God),' "(398) etc. As one says,
"wherefore is this one hung?" "Because he blasphemed the NAME, and it
follows that the heavenly NAME is profaned."

5. Rabbi Meier said, "when man is sorrowful,(399) what language does the
Shekinah(400) make him to utter?" If it be lawful so to speak, "my head
makes me ashamed, my arm makes me ashamed." If, to speak after the manner
of men, OMNIPRESENCE is sorrowful, when the blood of the wicked is poured
out, how much more sorrowful is He for the blood of the righteous? And not
in the case of the condemned alone, but everyone who leaves his dead
overnight, is a transgressor of a negative command. If they left him for
the sake of honor, to