(Mishnah): When he is four Amos from Beis ha'Skilah (the place where people are stoned), they remove his garments. We cover a man in front (his genitals), and we cover a woman in front and in back. R. Yehudah says so;

Chachamim say, a man is stoned (virtually) naked. A woman is not stoned naked.

Question: R. Yehudah holds oppositely from what he taught [about a Sotah]! There, he said that if her hair is beautiful, [the Kohen] does not untie it (lest it arouse desire), and here he says so (that a woman is stoned almost naked)!

Answer: Here, in any case she is going to die (the chance that they will find a reason to save her in the seconds between removing her garments and killing her is miniscule). There, if she is found to be Tehorah (the water does not kill her), young Kohanim might desire her.

Question: Chachamim hold oppositely from what they taught [about a Sotah]! There (really, here), they say that a man is stoned naked, but a woman is not stoned naked, and they say so [that a Kohen unties a Sotah's hair in any case]!

Answer: Here, "v'Ahavta l'Re'echa Kamocha" - choose for him a nice death. (It is very embarrassing for a woman to be naked. For a man, it is less shameful, and without clothes to soften the fall, he dies quicker, with less pain.) However, there it says "v'Nivasru Kol ha'Nashim" (we disgrace her to dissuade other women from doing like her).

(Mishnah): Beis ha'Skilah was twice a person's height. One of the witnesses would push him from his back. If he fell face down, he turns him on his side (ARUCH L'NER).

If he died [from the fall], the Mitzvah was fulfilled. If not, [that same witness] takes a rock and throws it on his heart. If he died, the Mitzvah was fulfilled. If not, the second witness takes a rock and throws it on his heart.

In the Bavli's text of the Mishnah, the first clause is omitted. If he did not die from the fall, the second witness takes a rock and throws it on his heart.

If he died from this, the Mitzvah was fulfilled. If not, all of Yisrael stones him - "Yad ha'Edim Tihyeh Bo va'Rishonah Lahamiso v'Yad Kol ha'Am ba'Acharonah."

(Gemara): With the height of the one who falls, [in all he falls] three [times his height].

Question: Here you say that with the height of the one who falls, [in all it is] three. Regarding a pit for damages, it was taught that until 10 Tefachim [it cannot kill. We exclude the height of the animal!]

Answer: One who knows that he will fall is unlike one who falls unexpectedly. (The former is less afraid.)

(R. Yonason ben Chali citing R. Avodimi, the grandson of R. Tavi citing R. Oshaya): These people who forcibly throw an ox to the ground [before slaughtering it, it senses that it will be thrown, so], we are not concerned lest the limbs became crushed (which is Tereifah).

In the days of R. Pinchas, they forcibly threw an ox to the ground. He told them to untie it (if it can walk, this shows that its limbs were not crushed). They untied it, and it fled. He said "blessed is He who chose Chachamim and their words - they said that these who forcibly throw an ox to the ground, we are not concerned lest the limbs became crushed."

What is the source that [one who is Chayav Skilah] must be stoned? It says "Sakol Yisakel." What is the source that he must be cast down? It says "Yaro Yiyareh." What is the source that he is cast down twice [his height]? It says "Yiyareh." (ZAHAV HA'ARETZ explains so. Rashi (Shemos 19:13, according to Sifsei Chachamim) says that we learn that Beis ha'Skilah was two Komos tall from Yaro Yiyareh.)

(Mishnah - R. Eliezer): Everyone who is stoned is hung;

Chachamim say, only a blasphemer or idolater is hung.

R. Eliezer says, we hang a man facing the people. We hang a woman facing the beam;

Chachamim say, a man is hung, but a woman is not hung.

R. Eliezer: Shimon ben Shetach hung women in Ashkelon!

Chachamim: He hung 80 in one day, even though we do not judge two capital cases in one day (it was due to an urgent need. It was not according to Halachah).

(Gemara) Question: What is R. Eliezer's reason?

Answer: Just like a blasphemer, who is stoned, is hung, I bring all others who are stoned, that they are hung.

What is Rabanan's reason? Just like a blasphemer, since he rebelled against the Source, he is hung, I bring all others who rebelled against the Source, that they are hung.