Reference for Bava Batra 310:1

היינו דקאתו ואמרו ליה מהו לבודקו אלא אי אמרת מבן עשרים כי בדקו ליה מאי הוי והא תנן בן עשרים שלא הביא שתי שערות יביאו ראיה שהוא בן עשרים והוא הסריס לא חולץ ולא מיבם

one can well understand the reason why they came and asked whether the corpse might be examined.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because if the signs of maturity could not be found on the body of the youth he would rightly be regarded as a minor. ');">¹</span> If, however, it is said, 'At twenty', what useful purpose could the examination serve?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'when they examined him, what is it?' ');">²</span> Surely we learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Nid. 47b; Yeb, 80a, 97a. ');">³</span> [If at the] age of twenty he<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Whose brother died childless and whose duty it is to marry his widow (V Deut. XXV, 5ff) or to perform halizah (V. Glos). ');">⁴</span> did not produce two hairs,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The legal signs of maturity. ');">⁵</span>

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