Commentary for Sanhedrin 91:10

או בבת כהן וזוממי זוממיה

or to the daughter ofa priest and the refuters of the refutingwitnesses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g., if A and B, who gave evidence against the daughter of a priest, were refuted by C and D, and the latter were afterwards themselves refuted by E and F, the woman undergoes her due death penalty — burning — since her refuting witnesses C and D were proved to be collusive, and the false witnesses are punished by the same penalty as the male adulterer (strangulation or burning, according to the status of the woman). V. infra 90a. ');">¹⁹</span> It has been taught: R. Eliezer b. Jacob said: I haveheard<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From my teachers. ');">²⁰</span>

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