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Mishnah, Makkot, 1.3

nan [If they say:] “We testify that so and so is liable to a flogging of forty lashes, and they are found to be perjurers, they receive eighty lashes, because of, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:13) and “You shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow” (Deuternomy 19:19), these are the words of Rabbi Meir. But the sages say, “They receive only forty lashes.” Monetary impositions are shared among the offenders, but the lashes are not shared among the offenders. How so? If they testified that he owed his friend one hundred zuz, and they were found to be perjurers, they divide the corresponding damages proportionately between them. But if they testified that he was liable to a flogging of forty lashes and were found to be perjurers, each one receives forty lashes."

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subject	book bibliographic info
contamination,susceptibility to	Neusner (2001) 278
corpse impurity,intentionality and	Neusner (2001) 278
corpse impurity,of food'	Neusner (2001) 278
food,cleanness of	Neusner (2001) 278
intentionality,and impurity	Neusner (2001) 278
liquids	Neusner (2001) 278
makhshirin	Neusner (2001) 278