R, Simeon says: merit does not cause the water of bitterness to suspend its effect, and if you say that merit does cause the water of bitterness to suspend its effect, you discredit the water in the case of all the women who drink it and defame the pure woman who drank it, since people will say, they were unclean, only their merit caused the water to suspend its effect upon them. Rabbi says: merit causes the water of bitterness to suspend its effect, and she never bears a child or thrives, but she gradually grows ill and finally dies through that death. |
סוטה 3.5 |
If her meal-offering became defiled before it became hallowed in the [ministering] vessel, behold it is like all meal-offerings [similarly defiled] and can be redeemed; but if [it became defiled] after it had been hallowed in the [ministering] vessel, behold it is like all meal-offerings [similarly defiled] and is destroyed. The following have their meal-offerings destroyed: she who says, `I am unclean to thee`, when witnesses came [and testified] that she had misconducted herself, she who says I refuse to drink, when the husband refuses to let her drink, and when her husband cohabited with her on the journey [to Jerusalem]. Furthermore, the meal-offerings of all women married to priests are destroyed. |
סוטה 3.6 |
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