יג בעי ר' שמעון בן לקיש שטר אירוסין שכתבו שלא לשמה מהו הויות ליציאות מקשינן מה
13 - Read: Men shall transmit [i.e., sell].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This requires a mere change of punctuation, the letters remaining the same.');"><sup>11</sup></span> Now, why do you read 'transmit'? because it is written: 'and he sell'! Then here too read: If a man be taken, for it is written: I gave my daughter unto this man for wife?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXII, 16.');"><sup>12</sup></span> - But said Raba: These are traditional laws, which the Rabbis supported by Scriptural verses.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' But they are not actually deduced from them.');"><sup>13</sup></span> Alternatively, there too it is written, so I took the deed of the purchase.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jer. ibid. 11; this shews that Jeremiah, the purchaser, received the deed, which must have been drawn up by the vendor.');"><sup>14</sup></span> Raba said in R'Nahman's name: If one writes on a paper or shard, even if not intrinsically worth a perutah, 'Thy daughter be consecrated unto me,' 'thy daughter be betrothed unto me,' [or] 'thy daughter be my wife,' whether [she accepts it] through her father or herself, she is betrothed by his [sc. her father's] consent,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if she accepts it herself, she must have had her father's authority.');"><sup>15</sup></span> providing that she has not attained her majority.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., she is not yet a bogereth (q.v. Glos.) , and so still under her father's control,');"><sup>16</sup></span> If he writes on a paper or a shard, even if not intrinsically worth a perutah, 'Behold, thou art consecrated unto me,' 'Behold, thou art my wife,' 'Behold, thou art betrothed unto me,' she is betrothed, whether [it is accepted] by her father or herself, with her consent, providing that she is of age. R'Simeon B'Lakish propounded: What if a deed of betrothal was not written expressly for her sake?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It was originally written for another woman. In the case of divorce, such a document is invalid. E.g., if a husband indites a divorce for his wife and does not use it, the same may not be used by another man to divorce his wife, even if all the relevant particulars, viz., names and places and date, coincide.');"><sup>17</sup></span> Do we assimilate modes of betrothal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'becoming' (a wife) .');"><sup>18</sup></span> to divorce:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'goings forth' (from the married state) .');"><sup>19</sup></span> just as