Tractate Sanhedrin in the Mishnah, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, and Babylonian Talmud interpreted the laws of judges in . The "Mishnah" described three levels of courts: courts of 3 judges, courts of 23 judges, and a court of 71 judges, called the Great Sanhedrin. Courts of three judges heard cases involving monetary disputes, larceny, bodily injury (as in ), claims for full or half damages as for damage done by a goring ox (described in ), the repayment of the double (as in ) or four- or five-fold restitution of stolen goods (as in ), rape (as in ), seduction (as in ), flogging (as in , although in the name of Rabbi Ishmael it was said that cases involving flogging were heard by courts of 23), the determination that a new month had begun (as in ), the performance of "chalizah" (as in ), and a woman's refusal of an arranged marriage. Courts of 23 judges heard cases involving capital punishment, persons or beasts charged with unnatural intercourse (as in ), an ox that gored a person (as in ), and wolves, lions, bears, leopards, hyenas, or snakes that killed a person. (Eliezer ben Hurcanus said that whoever killed such an animal, even without a trial, acquired merit, but Rabbi Akiva held that their death was to be decided by a court of 23.) A court of 71 heard cases involving a tribe that had gone astray after idol-worship, a false prophet (as in ), a High Priest, optional war (that is, all wars apart from the conquest of Canaan), additions to the city of Jerusalem or the Temple courtyards, institution of small sanhedrins (of 23) for the tribes, and condemnation of a city (as in ).