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Halakhah for Megillah 40:17

ולהשקיית סוטה אתיא תורה תורה כתיב הכא (במדבר ה, ל) ועשה לה הכהן את כל התורה הזאת וכתיב התם (דברים יז, יא) על פי התורה אשר יורוך ועל המשפט

And for making the sotah drink: This is derived from the word “Torah” “Torah”. It is written here, “And the priest shall do to her all this Torah” (Numbers 5:30), and it is written elsewhere, “According to the Torah which they teach you and according to the judgement” (Deuteronomy 17:11):

Sefer HaChinukh

From the laws of the commandment is, for example, that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Megillah 20b) [that] we only make this declaration during the day, and that the whole day is fit for the declaration of the tithe, and that it can be said in any language (Sotah 32b). And [the proper execution of] its commandment is in the Temple, as it is stated, "in front of the Lord, your God." But if he makes the declaration in any place, he has fulfilled [it]. And there cannot be anything left of any of the gifts with the one making the declaration, as he says, "I have disposed of the holy from the house." And when does he make the declaration? After the third year in which we separate the poor-tithe, in the fourth year which is after it on the last day of Pesach; and so [too,] in the seventh [year]. And the rest of its laws are elucidated in the last chapter of Tractate Maaser Sheni.
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