נגמר הדין. חוץ לבית בין – far from the Jewish court, perhaps all the while that they bring him to the House of Stoning, they will find him for acquittal and he will be freed.

והסודרין בידו – to wave, and it is a sign to return him.

ובלבד שיהא ממש בדבריו – but if there is no substance in his words, the first and second time alone they return him, perhaps as a result out of fright he declared that he had nothing to say (i.e., he was intimidated), and perhaps his mind became clearer and he would remember his pleas; more than this, we don’t return him, and we transmit to him two Sages who would investigate if there is substance to this words, and then they would return him four or five times.

ופלוני ופלוני עדיו – that he transgressed such-a-sin on a certain day at a particular time and in a certain place; perhaps there are those who would refute them as false witnesses.

היה רחוק מבית הסקילה – since near to the House of Stoning, lest his mind would become unbalanced and he would be unable to confess.

תן לו תודה – and even though a person is not killed by his own [admission], the killing of Achan (Joshua 7:19-20) was a special dispensation (i.e., a decision under an emergency).

וכזאת וכזאת עשיתי – In the Gemara (Sanhedrin 47b) it explains that he committed a religious sacrilege with the devoted objects in the days of Moses.

שהוא מזומם – that his witnesses were plotting/scheming witnesses (i.e., false witnesses).

לנקות את עצמן – from creation and they will discredit the judges and the witnesses. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

מפשיטין את בגדיו – as it is written (Leviticus 24:14): “[Take the blasphemer outside the camp; and for all who r within hearing lay their hands upon his head,] and let the whole community stone him,” but not his clothing.

מכסין אוצו מלפניו – one limb that is to say, a bit from him from the front, but the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.

היה גבוה שתי קומות – and we throw him down from there to the ground.

הופכו על מתניו – for when he is lying on his back, it is more reprehensible.

מגדף – because he blasphemes God.

ועובד עבודה זרה – he is also a blasphemer, as it is written (Numbers 15:30): “But the person, [be he citizen or stranger] who acts defiantly reviles the LORD…” and this portion speaks of idolatry.

ואין דנין שנים ביום אחד – in one Jewish court, because it is not able to restore each of one of them to their innocence, but the hanging of these women was a special dispensation, and we don’t learn from it. And the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.

משקיעין – wedged in.

והעץ יוצא ממנו – like a peg that would come out from the beam near its top.

ומקיף – supports this near, like to take Terumah out of a mass which is not in a close neighborhood of those products which are to be redeemed (Talmud Eruvin 32a).

ותולין אותו – by his hands.

הקורה מוטה על הכותל – it was not wedged into the ground but one head is on the ground and one head leans and is supported on the wall, and the reason of Rabbi Yosi is because the tree is that he is hung upon is buried with him, for the Torah said (Deuteronomy 21:23): “[You must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight,] but must bury him the same day…,” he who is not requiring anything other than burial, we exclude that which requires digging, plucking/being detached and burial. But for the Rabbis, digging is not considered anything, and the Torah did not exclude other that the tree should be attached from its root. And the Halakha is according to the Sages.

בזמן שאדם מצטער – for retribution comes upon him for his transgression.

מה לשון אומרת – in which language does God’s presence bewails and laments on him?

קלני מראשי – my head is heavy upon me and my arm is heavy upon me as a person who is tired.

קלני – I am not light-headed.

ולא זה בלבד – he transgresses the negative commandment of (Deuteronomy 21:23 – “you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day…”) if you delayed his burial.

לא היו קוברין אותו בקברות אבותיהן – because we do not bury a wicked person next to a righteous one.

שני קברות היו מתוקנין לבית דין – because we don’t bury a person who was liable for a more stringent death penalty near one who was liable for a lesser death [penalty], and the Halakha is known well by two and not by four.

נתעכל הבשר – he already was pardoned by his death and his disgrace.

מלקטין את העצמות – and bury them in the graves of their ancestors.

ולא היו מתאבלים – in order that their disgrace is atonement for them. And there are those who say: because the mourning devolves upon whomever closes the tomb with the stone placed on top of a burial cave.