אמר ליה אביי ממה נפשך אי בעולה הויא זונה נמי הויא ואי זונה לא הויא בעולה נמי לא הויא וכי תימא מידי דהויא אמוכת עץ שלא כדרכה אם כן אין לך אשה שכשרה לכהונה שלא נעשית מוכת עץ על ידי צרור
Said Abaye to him: Whatever you prefer [your reply cannot be upheld], If she is a <i>be'ulah</i><span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] one who had experienced carnal intercourse.
');"><sup>10</sup></span> she must also be a harlot; and if she is not a harlot<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Presumably because her act cannot be regarded as 'sexual intercourse'.
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Tosefta Niddah
A girl whose time to see [a menstrual flow] had not yet come, and she saw a her first menstrual flow (lit., "saw her first seeing") and her second [menstrual flow], then by her third time she may impart impurity for a twenty-four hour period. If she skipped two cycles (alt, שלש עונות ("three cycles"), see Ohr HaGanuz and Nidd. 9b:3) and then saw [a menstrual flow], her time is sufficient [to be subject to the laws of niddah]. Or if she arrived at her time to see [a menstrual flow] and she saw her first menstrual flow, and her second, she imparts impurity for twenty-four hours, and on the third [menstrual flow] her time is sufficient. if she skipped three cycles and then she saw [a menstrual flow], she imparts impurity for twenty-four hours. And from what point is she fit to see [a menstrual flow]? From the time that she grows two [pubic] hairs. Said Rabbi Eliezer, it so happened with a certain girl in Hitlo (Nidd. 9b:8, cf. Yeb. 59b:7), that when her time came to see [a menstrual flow] she skipped over three cycles [before once again resuming her flow], and the matter came before the Sages, and they said, her time is sufficient. They said to him, that was a provisional edict [issued under exigent circumstances, and thus cannot be applied to other case].
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