Midrash for Makkot 45:8
מלקין אותו וכו' מנא הני מילי אמר רב כהנא דאמר קרא (דברים כה, ב) והפילו השופט והכהו לפניו כדי רשעתו במספר רשעה אחת מלפניו שתי רשעיות מאחריו:
We flog him etc.: From where do we know these words [that one third are on the front]? Rav Kahana said. That the Torah says, (Duetermony 25,2) "And the judge shall cast him down and flog him in front according to his wickedness in number." One wickedness is on his front, and two wickedness are on his back.
Sifrei Devarim
I might think, (that they were steeped in blood) even after they received it; it is, therefore, written "only" (a term of limitation). Once they received it, they observed it with joy. [Rabban Gamliel says: It states "Only strengthen yourself not to eat the blood". If Scripture exhorted us so concerning the "lightest" mitzvah of the Torah, (not to eat) blood, how much more so are we thus exhorted concerning the other mitzvoth of the Torah!]
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Sifrei Devarim
(Rabban Gamliel says: It states "Only strengthen yourself not to eat the blood". If Scripture exhorted us so concerning the "lightest" mitzvah of the Torah, (not to eat) blood, how much more so are we thus exhorted concerning the other mitzvoth of the Torah!)
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