## Rashi on Sotah Daf 18a

###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:1:1
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על שני דפין - כדפין של ספר תורה העשויין עמודים:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
On two pages - like the pages of a Torah scroll, which are made as columns.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:2:1
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כתב אות אחת ומחקה - על המים וחזר וכתב אות שלאחריה ומחקה עד שהשלים את כולה פסול דכתיב את כל התורה עד שתהא כולה כאחד:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
If one wrote one letter and erased one letter - onto the water, and then wrote the next letter and erased it, until [in this way] completing [the text] in its entirety, as it is written "all this ritual" [Numbers 5:30] -- that it all be [together] as one.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:3:1
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לשמה - בספר לעצמו דכתיב ועשה לה לשמה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
For her sake - in a scroll by itself, as it is written, "and he shall carry out with her" [Numbers 5:30] -- for her sake.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:3:2
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מחיקה נמי - בכוס לשמה לעצמה שיהא ניכר המחיקה שהיא לשמה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
Also the erasure - into a cup be for her sake -- that it be evident that the erasure is for her sake.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:6:1
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השקה בסיב - שהוא חלול כדרך שהתינוקות שותין:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
Administered to her to drink through fiber - which is hollow, the way babies drink.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:9:1
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שיש עמה אלה - דכתיב בחדא מינייהו בשבועת האלה ולקמיה מפרש היכי דמי:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
That has a curse with it - with one of [the oaths] it is written "with the curse of adjuration" [Numbers 5:21]. Later on it will explain what the circumstances are.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:10:1
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משביעני עליך - בשם ומזכיר שם:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
I administer an oath to you - with the name [of God], and he pronounces the name.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:10:2
[Rashi on Sotah 18a:10:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20Sotah/r/18a:10:2)

שלא נטמאת - שאת אומר אמת שלא נטמאת היינו שבועה שאין עמה אלה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
That you were not defiled - that you are telling the truth that you were not defiled -- that is an oath that does not have a curse with it.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:10:3
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שאם נטמאת יבואו ביך - המים לצבות בטן כו' והיינו אלה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
As, if you were defiled, they will come upon you - [that is,] the water [will come upon you] "causing the belly to distend and the thigh to sag" etc. [Numbers 5:22] -- which is the curse.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:11:1
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אמר רבא אלה לחודיה קיימא כו' - שבועה ואלה יש כאן ושניהן על האשה וקרא כתיב בשבועת האלה שהשבועה של אלה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
Rava said: the curse stands by itself etc. - there are an oath and a curse here [separately in Rav's formulation], both regarding the woman. However in the verse it is written "with the curse of adjuration" [Numbers 5:21] -- that the oath have the quality of a curse.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:11:2
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משביעני עליך שאם נטמאת יבואו ביך - דאיכא השתא שבועת האלה שמשביע את האלה שתחול:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
I administer an oath to you that if you were defiled, they will come upon you - so, now we have an oath [which includes] a curse [along with it] -- that he administers an oath which states that the curse will take effect.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:12:1
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שבועה ליכא - על האשה וקרא כתיב והשביע את האשה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
There is no oath - [administered] to the woman, but the verse states "and [the priest] shall administer the oath to the woman" [cf. Numbers 5:21].


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:12:2
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משביעני עליך שלא נטמאת ואם נטמאת יבואו ביך - משביעני עליך שיהא אמת מה שאמרת בפנינו שלא נטמאת ואם נטמאת יבואו ביך המים דקיימא שבועה אאשה שלא נטמאת ואאלה שתחול:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
I administer an oath to you that you were not defiled and that if you were defiled [all these curses] will come upon you - I administer an oath to you that what you said before us is truthful, that you were not defiled; and if you were defiled, the water will come upon you. Then the oath that she was not defiled will apply to the woman, as well as to the curse that will occur.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:13:1
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מתני' אמן על האלה וכו' - לכך הוצרכה לכפול:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
Mishna. Amen on the curse etc. - therefore she is required to double it.


###### Rashi on Sotah 18a:13:2
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ארוסה ונשואה - על ידי גלגול שבועה הוא מגלגל עליה זנות של אירוסין אע"פ שלא היה בו קינוי ומכאן לגלגול שבועה מן התורה:

**Rashi on Sotah 21b:1:2:**
Neither betrothed nor married - he extends upon her, through the mechanism of the "extension of an oath", [an oath regarding] adultery from the period of betrothal, even though he had not expressed a warning [then]. This, then, is a reference to "extension of an oath" in the Torah.