Halakhah for Makkot 3:6
מנהני מילי א"ר יהושע בן לוי (אמר ר"ש בן לקיש) דאמר קרא (דברים יט, יט) ועשיתם לו כאשר זמם לו ולא לזרעו וליפסלוהו לדידיה ולא ליפסלו לזרעיה בעינן כאשר זמם לעשות וליכא
What is the source? R' Yehoshua ben Levi said (in the name of R' Raish Lakish) And you shall do to him as HE plotted, [meaning] to him, and not to his offspring. [So] then revoke just his priesthood and not his offspring's, [but] the laws of false witnesses requires the same punishment, and it is missing here.
Sefer HaChinukh
And [it] is practiced in every place and at all time by males, but not by females. As women are not [included] in the category of testimony, since testimony requires focus and much concentration. And the verse put a limit on the punishment of the one who transgresses this negative prohibition and testifies falsely against his fellow, to do unto him as he thought to do his fellow (Deuteronomy 19:19). And there are also lashes for it (Makkot 2a). And it is also elucidated there in Sanhedrin.
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