Halakhah for Gittin 3:4
ר' יהודה אומר מרקם למזרח ורקם כמזרח מאשקלון לדרום ואשקלון כדרום מעכו לצפון ועכו כצפון ר"מ אומר עכו כארץ ישראל לגיטין
THE SAGES, HOWEVER, SAY THAT THE DECLARATION 'IN MY PRESENCE IT WAS WRITTEN AND IN MY PRESENCE IT WAS SIGNED' IS REQUIRED ONLY FROM ONE WHO BRINGS A BILL OF DIVORCE [FROM FOREIGN PARTS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL] OR WHO TAKES IT [FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO FOREIGN PARTS].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The point of this remark is discussed infra 4b. ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And the witnesses sign below. And the people have become accustomed to writing it with twelve rows, like the number [of the numerical equivalent of the letters in the word,] get (Tosafot on Gittin 2a:1, s.v. hamevi). And we only write, 'like the law of Moshe and Israel' on the last line.
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