The reader reads (Deut. 28:58ff): If you do not observe to do, etc., Hashem will make wondrous your plagues and the plagues of, etc., and he goes back to the beginning of the verses. And you shall observe the words of this covenant, etc. (Deut. 29:8) and he concludes (Psalms 78:38): But He, the Merciful One, is forgiving of iniquity, etc., and he goes back to the beginning of the verses.  If he died under his hand, he is exempt. [If] he added one more blow, and he died —- he is exiled because of him. [If] he soiled himself either with excrement or with urine, he is exempt. R' Yehudah says: A man with excrement, and a woman with urine.

All those liable to kares who were flogged be-come exempt from their kares, as it is said (Deut. 25:3): And your brother be dis-honored before your eyes —- once he has been flogged, he is as your brother; [these are] the words of R' Chanania ben Gam-liel. Said R' Chanania ben Gamliel: Now if one who commits one transgression forfeits his soul thereby, one who performs one mitzvah, how much more should his soul be granted him! R' Shimon says: It is derived from its place, as it is said (Lev. 18:29): And the souls that do them shall be cut off, etc. And it [also] states (ibid. v. 5): which a man shall do and live by them. This means that whoever sits and refrains from committing a transgression is rewarded like one who performs a mitzvah. R' Shimon the son of Rabbi says: It states (Deut. 12:23): Only be steadfast not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life. Now if for blood, from which a person recoils, one who abstains from it is rewarded, theft and immorality, which a person desires and covets, how much more will one who abstains from them merit for himself, his children, and his grandchildren, until the end of all the generations!