Related%20passage for Yevamot 120:14

אמר רבי יעקב בר אידי אמר רבי יהושע בן לוי הלכה כרבי שמעון בן יוחאי אמר ליה רבי זירא לרבי יעקב בר אידי בפירוש שמיע לך או מכללא שמיע לך

Similarly, it is said, <i>And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead <font>four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him</font></i><font>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Judges XXI, 12. ');">²⁹</span></font> whence did they know it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra n. 1 mutatis mutandis. ');">³⁰</span> R. Kahana replied: They made them sit upon the mouth of a wine-cask. [Through anyone who had] had previous intercourse, the odour penetrated; through a virgin, its odour did not penetrate. They should have been made to pass before the frontplate!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As was done in the case of the Midianites (v. supra). ');">³¹</span>

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