Commentary for Yevamot 223:9

הנודרת הנאה וכו': תנן התם בראשונה היו אומרים שלש נשים יוצאות ונוטלות כתובה

or 'May I be kept away from the Jews'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a vow to have no sexual intercourse with any of them. Such a vow is assumed to be the result of the pain that connubial intercourse may cause her, and therefore justified. ');">²³</span> This ruling was afterwards withdrawn<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'they returned to say'. ');">²⁴</span> in order that a wife might not cast eyes upon another man<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whom she would arrange to marry in a place where they are unknown. ');">²⁵</span>

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