Halakhah for Gittin 109:13

ועל חטאת הגזולה כו': אמר עולא דבר תורה בין נודעה ובין לא נודעה אינה מכפרת

Surely this is obvious? [It required to he stated] because you might have thought that his saying to her 'take this bond' rendered the Get void. [Raba therefore] teaches us that if he had meant to annul it he would have said so to the witnesses, and the reason why he spoke so to the wife was because he was ashamed [to call it a Get].

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