Commentary for Yevamot 115:13

אלא דקני לה כשהיא ארוסה ואיסתתרה ונכנסה לחופה ולא נבעלה ושמע מינה יש חופה לפסולות

and is now made to drink when she is already married; do the waters [it may be asked] test her? Surely it was taught: And the man shall be clear from iniquity,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 31. ');">²³</span> only when the man is 'clear from iniquity' do the waters test his wife; when, however, the man is not 'clear from iniquity'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As in this case where he married her, despite her intimacy with the suspected man during her betrothal which had caused her prohibition to him. ');">²⁴</span>

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