The penalty for lying in court gave pause to all involved: “The judges will thoroughly investigate, and if the man who testified is a false witness and has brought a false charge against his brother, you should do to him just as he had schemed to do to his brother, and you must remove what is bad from your midst. ”
ועשיתם לו כאשר זמם לעשות לאחיו, וביערת הרע מקרבך ” (‏ דברים י ” ט: 18, 19‏).