Commentary for Makkot 7:12

Witnesses testify this person should get forty lashes and are found to be false are lashed eighty times, for 'do not bear false witness' and for 'and you shall do unto him as he wished to do'. These are the words of R' Meir, and the Rabbis say they are only lashed forty times. GEMARA:

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