חיה דתניא חיה נאמנת לומר זה יצא ראשון וזה יצא שני במה דברים אמורים שלא יצתה וחזרה אבל יצתה וחזרה אינה נאמנת רבי אליעזר אומר הוחזקה על עומדה נאמנת ואם לאו אינה נאמנת מאי בינייהו איכא בינייהו דאהדר אפה
R'Eliezer said: If she was known to have been at her post, she is believed; if not, she is not believed. Wherein do they differ? - They differ where she turned her face away.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' According to the first Tanna she is believed, but not in R. Eliezer's opinion, for by turning her back on the mother she left her post.');"><sup>14</sup></span> What is the reference to her who frees her companions? - For we learnt: If three women were sleeping in one bed, and blood was found under one of them, they are all unclean.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In sleep they do not keep to the same spot all the time, and any one might have discharged the blood. ,xu rugha');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Tosefta Kiddushin
A man who went with his wife to the land beyond the sea, and he, his wife and his children came back, and he said: "The wife that went with me to the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about her nor about the children [to prove that they are his and hers]. "[The wife that went with me...] died, but here are her children"—he needs to bring evidence about the children but doesn't need to bring evidence about the wife. A woman/wife is believed when she says, "These are my children". (The following translated from the Ehrfurt manuscript:) A man is believed when he says: "The wife that I married in the land beyond the sea—this is her and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence neither about the wife, nor about the children. "[I married a wife there but] she died, and these are her children"—he needs to bring evidence on both the wife and the children. A woman is believed when he says "These are my children."
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