Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 320:10

וטעמא מאי תקינו רבנן מקושר אתרא דכהני הוו והוו קפדי טובא ומגרשי נשייהו ועבדי רבנן תקנתא אדהכי והכי מיתבא דעתייהו

<i>At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the month of three witnesses, shall a matter be established</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XIX, 15. ');">²³</span> If their evidence may be established by two, why should three be specified? To tell you [that] two [are required] for a plain [deed]; three for a folded [one]. Might not this be reversed? — Since it has more folds,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. l.c n. 9. ');">²⁰</span> it [must also] have more witnesses.

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