Halakhah for Sanhedrin 90:21
האיש תולין אותו פניו כלפי העם והאשה פניה כלפי העץ דברי רבי אליעזר וחכ"א האיש נתלה ואין האשה נתלית אמר (להן) רבי אליעזר והלא שמעון בן שטח תלה נשים באשקלון אמרו לו שמונים נשים תלה ואין דנין שנים ביום אחד:
Now, they differ only in that one holds that 'the public square thereof'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. n. 5. ');"><sup>40</sup></span> implies, that it must have been there from the outset [i.e., before sentence]; and the other holds that 'the public square thereof', even if it has only now [sc. after sentence] become one, is to be regarded as though it had been one originally. Yet both agree that the verse must be interpreted literally! — It is a point of difference between Tannaim, for we learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nazir 46b, with reference to the purification of a leper. Cf. Lev, XIV, 14: ');"><sup>41</sup></span>