"And now he has made a libelous accusation...and these are the signs of my daughter's virginity": So we have witnesses who contradict his [the husband's] witnesses.

R' Yehuda says: He is not held culpable unless he has cohabited.

(This teaches that the defendant has the first word.)

2. “If a man is found to have bedded a woman who has been mounted by her husband” (Dt.22:22)— R. Ishmael says: The verse comes to teach you about a [childless, widowed] sister-in-law [awaiting her levir’s decision to marry her or to release her from marriage to him]: One consorting with her [after her husband’s death] is not liable under the rule [against mounting a married woman] until she is actually mounted.¹⁷³ 236. 1-2 consists of material that is poorly attested in the early versions of Sifre.

footnotes: ¹⁷³ The bulk of Pisqa’