"then she shall go out free": when she is a bogereth (i.e., after twelve and a half years); "without money": when she is a na'arah (from twelve and a day until twelve and half.) Now it follows that if she goes out in the days of na'aruth, she does not go out in the days of bagruth. (Why, then, write both?) If only one were written, I would say that it referred to the days of bagruth. And this would follow, viz.: Since (at a certain stage) she leaves her father's jurisdiction and (at a certain stage) she leaves her master's jurisdiction, then just as she leaves her father's jurisdiction when she changes from what she was, so, she leaves her master's jurisdiction when she changes from what she was—i.e., when she had been a na'arah and becomes a bogereth. Therefore, so that there be no room to contest (her leaving the master's jurisdiction when she is a na'arah), both are written: "then she shall go out free"—(uncontestedly,) when she is a bogereth; "without money"—when she is a na'arah. R. Yonathan says: "Then she shall go out free": when she is a na'arah; "without money": when she is a bogereth.
then she shall go out free" — when she is a bogereth (i
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