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    Shulchan Arukh, Even HaEzer 19

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    Even HaEzer Siman 19

    Even HaEzer Siman 19 is a source-text unit from the Shulchan Arukh with 2 seifim. Its reading map separates the practical rule, its conditions and the points that need comparison with the surrounding text.

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    1. Seif 131 words

      Opens “סוקלין על חזקה שהיא בחזקת ערוה. ובו…”

    2. Seif 222 words

      Opens “איש ואשה שבאו ממדינת הים היא אומרת…”

    Original text

    <b>סוקלין על חזקה שהיא בחזקת ערוה. ובו ב סעיפים:</b><br>מי שהוחזק בשאר בשר דנין על פי חזקה זו אע"פ שאין שם ראיה ברורה שזה קרוב ומלקין וחונקין וסוקלין על חזקה זו:

    One who is held to be a kinsman [in regards to illicit relations], we judge on this presumption in spite of the fact that there is no clear proof that he is a relative, and we lash [him] and strangle [him] and stone [him] according to this presumption.

    איש ואשה שבאו ממדינת הים היא אומרת זה בעלי והוא אומר זו אשתי אם הוחזקו בעיר ל' יום שהיא אשתו הורגין עליה:

    A man and a woman that came from a foreign country, she says: this is my husband, and he says: this is my wife, if it becomes known in that city for thirty days that she is his wife, they kill because of her.

    English translation: Sefaria Community Translation · CC0