איתיביה (יהושע כא, טז) ערים תשע מאת שני השבטים האלה מאי לאו ארבע ופלגא מהאי וארבע ופלגא מהאי וש"מ חולקין עיר אחת לב' שבטים לא ארבעה מהאי וחמש מהאי
<b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. Our Rabbis taught: [If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities… saying,] they have gone out: [this implies,] they, but not their agents.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., only if the seducers of the same city personally enticed the majority of the city to idolatry. But if a number were enticed by their agents, the law of a condemned city does not apply, the enticed ones being punished as individuals.
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Sifrei Devarim
From here they ruled: (The members of) an ass-caravan or a camel caravan that goes from place to place and rested within it, and they were turned astray with them — If it camped there for thirty days, they are put to death by the sword and their possessions are lost; if less than thirty days, they are put to death by stoning, and their possessions "escape."
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Sifrei Devarim
(Ibid. 17:5) "Then you shall take out that man or that woman." Because we find that those who were incited are killed by the sword, I might think that the same applies to the inciters; it is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "the man or the woman and you shall stone them with stones and they shall die." Because we find that a "condemned city" is not declared through (the incitement of) an individual or of women, I might think that they are not liable (to the death penalty); it is, therefore, written (Ibid. 2) "a man or a woman who would do what is evil in the eyes of the L-rd your G-d, to break His covenant."
