Halakhah for Sanhedrin 116:5

ת"ש (בראשית כ, יב) וגם אמנה אחותי בת אבי היא אך לא בת אמי מכלל דבת האם אסורה

Does not this prove that his mother's daughter is forbidden?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This contradicts R. Akiba's ruling. For since he interprets the verse as referring us his father's wife and his mother, who are forbidden on pain of death, he evidently regards those who are forbidden under penalty of extinction as permissible, and his mother's daughter is only thus forbidden, but not on pain of death. ');">⁸</span>

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