How do they flog him? He binds his two hands on the post on either side, and the attendant of the congregation seizes his garments —- if they tear, they tear, and if they split open, they split open —- until he bares his chest; and the stone is placed behind him. The attendant of the congre-gation stands upon it with a calfskin strap in his hand, doubled one into two and two into four, with two [other] straps running up and down in it.

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.