Mesorat%20hashas for Sotah 35:3

בעי רבא כתב ב' מגילות לשתי סוטות ומחקן לתוך כוס אחד מהו כתיבה לשמה בעינן והאיכא או דילמא בעינן נמי מחיקה לשמה

Raba asked: How is it if he wrote two scrolls for two suspects and blotted them in one vessel of water? Do we only require that the writing should be expressly for each case? That we have here; or perhaps it is also necessary to have obliteration expressly for each case! If, furthermore, you conclude that we also require obliteration expressly for each case, how is it if he obliterated them in two vessels and then mixed them? Do we only require that the obliteration should be expressly for each case? That we have here; or perhaps each of the women does not drink the water prepared for her! If, furthermore, you conclude that [this renders the rite invalid because] each of the women does not drink the water prepared for her, how is it if he again divided the water into two parts [after having mixed it]? Is there or is there not a retrospective differentiation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Bererah v. Glos. Do we regard the water now divided as being differentiated and identical with the original quantities of water? ');">²</span>

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