If one witness says `I saw the murderer` and one witness says `you did not see him`; or if a woman says `I saw him` and another woman says `you did not see him`, they break its neck. If one witness says `I saw him` and two say `you did not see him`, they break its neck. If two say `we saw him` and one says to them `you did not see him`, they do not break its neck. |
סוטה 9.8 |
When murderers multiplied the ceremony of breaking a Heifer`s neck was discontinued. That was when Eliezer b. Dinai, also called Tehinah b. Perishah, appeared; He was afterwards renamed `son of the murderer when adulterers multiplied the ceremony of the bitter water was discontinued and it was R. Johanan b. Zakkai who discontinued it, as it is said, I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your brides when they commit adultery, for they themselves etc. When Jose b. Joezer of Zeredah and Jose b. Judah of Jerusalem died, the grape-clusters ceased, as it is said, there is no cluster to eat; my soul desireth the first ripe fig. |
סוטה 9.9 |
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