[When] he was approximately ten cubits from the stoning place, they say to him, “Confess, as it is the practice of those who are executed to confess, because anyone who confesses has a share in the World to Come.” For so we find concerning Achan, that Joshua said to him: My son, please give honor to the God of Israel and render confession to him, etc. And Achan answered Joshua and said: I have sinned ... thus [have I done], etc. From where do we know that his confession brought him atonement? Because it says: And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Hashem shall trouble you on this day” —- on this day you are troubled, but you will not be troubled in the World to Come. If he does not know how to confess, they said to him, “Say: Let my death by an atonement for all my sins.” R’ Yehudah says: If he knows that he is the victim of a plot, he should say, “Let my death be an atonement for all my sins except for this one.” They said to him: If so, everyone will say so in order to clear himself.

When he was four cubits from the stoning place, they removed his clothing. They cover a man in front, and a woman [both] in front and back; [these are] the words of R’ Yehudah. But the Sages say: A man is stoned unclothed but a woman is not stoned unclothed.