Responsa for Kiddushin 146:10

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.');">¹⁴</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');">¹⁵</span>

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