Its handle should be a handbreadth, its width a handbreadth, and its tip should reach his navel. He strikes one-third [of the lashes] in the front and two-thirds in the back; and he does not strike him either standing or sitting, but bent over, as it is said (Deut. 25:2): And the judge shall make him fall. The flogger strikes with one hand with all his might.