(Numb. 5:13, cont.:) AND THERE IS NO WITNESS AGAINST HER. Although she has no witness against her now, she will have one at another time.⁵¹., Numb. 2:7, and Numb. R. 9:10, see Gen. R. 38:14; PRK 18:3; PR 32:2. In a similar usage⁵² This repetitive use of kayyotse b… indicates that the sixth of the seven exegetical rules (middot) attributed to Hillel is being used here. you say (in Gen. 11:30): NOW SARAI WAS BARREN; SHE HAD NO CHILD. Although Sarai had no child then, she would have one at another time, as stated (in Gen. 21:1): THEN THE LORD VISITED SARAH…. In a similar usage you say (in Esth. 2:10): ESTHER HAD NOT DISCLOSED HER PEOPLE AND HER NATIVE LAND. Although she had not disclosed them to him then, she did disclose them to him at another time, as stated (in Esth. 8:1): THEN MORDECAI CAME BEFORE THE KING, FOR ESTHER HAD DISCLOSED WHAT RELATIONSHIP HE HAD TO HER. And here also (in Numb. 5:13): AND THERE IS NO WITNESS AGAINST HER. Although she has no witness against her now, she will have one at anther time, as stated (in Mal. 3:5): AND I WILL BE A SWIFT WITNESS [AGAINST SORCERERS, AGAINST ADULTERERS] ….

footnotes: ⁵¹ In addition to Tanh ⁵² Kayyotse badavar.