Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 109:26

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the first stage by itself constitutes the offence.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As only the designated bondmaid must pass the second stage in order to constitute an offence for which liability to a guilt-offering is incurred, it follows that in all the other cases, where no guilt-offering is ever incurred, the offence is constituted with the first stage alone. ');">⁵⁷</span> On the contrary! As the All Merciful specified the first stage in the case of those who are subject to the penalty of <i>kareth</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Lev. XVIII, 29. ');">⁵⁸</span> it may be inferred that among those who are subject to the penalty of negative commandments consummation only constitutes the offence! — R. Ashi replied: If so,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That with all the others who are subject to the penalty of negative commandments the offence is not constituted unless, as with the designated bondmaid, the second stage was passed. ');">⁵⁹</span> Scripture should have omitted [the reference]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Carnally'. Lit., 'let the text keep silence.' ');">⁶⁰</span> in the case of the designated handmaid.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since, however, the second stage was specifically postulated in her case, it follows that with all the others the first stage by itself constitutes the offence. ');">⁶¹</span> Whence [is the prohibition of] the first stage inferred in the case of offences for which priests alone are subject to the penalty of negative commandments?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the designated maid supra only such prohibitions may he inferred as are applicable to all and not to priests only. ');">⁶²</span> — This is arrived at by an analogy between the expressions of 'taking'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The expression of 'taking' is used in the case of intercourse with a sister (Lev. XX, 17) which is punishable by kareth, and a similar expression is used in the case of marriages forbidden to priests under the penalty of a negative commandment (Lev. XXI, 7). ');">⁶³</span> Whence [is the prohibition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of the first stage. ');">⁶⁴</span> in respect of] those who are subject<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For intercourse with an Israelite's daughter. ');">⁶⁵</span> to the penalty of a positive commandment<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An Egyptian or an Edomite, for instance, (v. Deut. XXIII, 8, 9) whose prohibition to marry an Israelite's daughter is based on the positive precept, The third generation&nbsp;… shall (E.V. may) enter into the assembly of the Lord, which implies that the first and second generations must not. A negative precept derived from a positive one has the force of a positive precept. ');">⁶⁶</span> inferred?

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