| The inhabitants of a seduced city have no portion in the world to come, as it is written, certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city. They are not executed unless the seducers are of that city and that tribe, and the majority thereof are seduced, and the seducers are men. If women or minors seduced it, if a minority were seduced, or if the seducers were from without the city, they are treated as individuals, and two witnesses and a formal warning are necessary for each [offender] in this [the penalty of] individuals is severer than [that of] a multitude, for individuals are stoned, therefore their property is saved; but multitudes are decapitated; hence their possessions are destroyed. |
סנהדרין 10.4 אנשי עיר הנידחת, ''יצאו אנשים בני בלייעל, מקרבך, וידיחו את יושבי עירם, לאמור'' (דברים יג,יד) -- הא אינן נהרגין עד שיהיו מדיחיה מאותה העיר ומאותו השבט, ועד שיודח רובה, ועד שידיחוה אנשים׃ הדיחוה נשים וקטנים, או שהודח מיעוטה, או שהיו מדיחיה מחוצה לה-- הרי אלו כיחידים׃ צריכין שני עדים והתראה, לכל אחד ואחד׃ זה חומר ביחידים מבמרובים-- שהיחידים בסקילה, לפיכך ממונם פלט; והמרובים בסיף, לפיכך ממונם אבד |
| Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. A company of ass-drivers or Camel-drivers passing from place to place saves it. Destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof: from this it was deduced that the property of the righteous, which is within [the city] is destroyed, but that which is without is saved, whilst that of the wicked, whether within or without, is destroyed. And thou shalt gather all the spoil thereof in to the midst of the public square thereof etc. If it had no public square, one is made for it; if it was [situated] without [the town], it is brought within it, as it is said, and thou shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for The Lord Thy God. |
סנהדרין 10.5 ''הכה תכה, את יושבי העיר ההיא-- לפי חרב'' (דברים יג,טז) -- החמרת והגמלת העוברת ממקום למקום, הרי אלו מצילין אותם׃ ''החרם אותה ואת כל אשר בה ואת בהמתה, לפי חרב'' (שם) -- מכאן אמרו נכסי צדיקים שבתוכה אובדים, ובחוצה לה פליטין; ושל רשעים-- בין מתוכה בין בחוצה לה, אובדין |
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