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Mishnah: When the trial has ended in a guilty verdict and the condemned man has been sentenced to be stoned, he is taken out to be stoned. The place of stoning was outside the court and a little beyond it, as it is stated with regard to a blasphemer: “Take out him who has cursed to outside the camp
One man stands at the entrance to the court, with cloths [vehasudarin] in his hand, and another man sits on a horse at a distance from him but where he can still see him. If one of the judges says: I can teach a reason to acquit him, the other, i.e., the man with the cloths, waves the cloths as a
Talmud: The Talmud asks: And was the place of stoning just outside the court and nothing more? Does it suffice that the place of execution is only a short distance from the court and no further? But isn’t it taught in a baraita: The place of stoning was outside the distance that is equivalent to t
The Talmud answers: Yes, it is as you said, that the place of stoning was outside the 3 camps. And the practical difference from the fact that the Mishnah teaches the halakha in this manner is that if it happened that the court went out and convened outside the 3 camps, even then the place of sto
The Talmud asks: From where is this matter derived that the stoning is carried out outside the 3 camps? As A baraita states a baraita with regard to the verse: “Take out him who has cursed to outside the camp” (Leviticus 24:14). This means: Outside the 3 camps, i.e., even outside the camp of the Is