ת"ר האשה שאמרה אשת איש אני וחזרה ואמרה פנויה אני נאמנת והא שוויה לנפשה חתיכה דאיסורא אמר רבא בר רב הונא כגון שנתנה אמתלא לדבריה תניא נמי הכי אמרה אשת איש אני וחזרה ואמרה פנויה אני אינה נאמנת ואם נתנה אמתלא לדבריה נאמנת
Our Rabbis taught: If a woman says, “I am married,”and then she says, “I am unmarried,” she is believed. But she made herself forbidden! Rava the son of R. Huna said: When she has given a plausible reason for her words. It was also taught in a baraita: If she says, I am married’, and then she says, ‘I am unmarried’, she is not believed, but if she gives a plausible reason for her words, she is believed. And so it once happened with a great woman, who was great in beauty, and men were eager to betroth her, and she said to them,
Tosefta Ketubot
The wife who said, "I am married", but came back and said, "I am not married" is believed, since the mouth that forbade is the mouth that permitted. If she said: "I was captured but I am pure [i.e. did not have sex with her captives], and I have witnesses that I am pure!", they don't say: "Let's wait until the witnesses come and permit her", but rather permit her [to return to her husband or subsequently marry a kohen] immediately. If, after they permitted her, witnesses came and said, "She was captured", then she cannot remarry. (The next section is not in good manuscripts). If [the witnesses said] "She was captured and is impure", even if she had children, she has to leave the marriage. If one witness says "She was captured and is impure", [or] one witness says "She was captured and is pure", [or] a woman says "She was captured and is impure", [or] a woman says "She was captured and is pure"—all of these she should not be remarried; but if she does remarry, she shouldn't leave the marriage.
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