Reference for Kiddushin 3:8

קִדַּשְׁתִּי אֶת בִּתִּי, קִדַּשְׁתִּיהָ וְגֵרַשְׁתִּיהָ כְּשֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה, וַהֲרֵי הִיא קְטַנָּה, נֶאֱמָן. קִדַּשְׁתִּיהָ וְגֵרַשְׁתִּיהָ כְּשֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה, וַהֲרֵי הִיא גְדוֹלָה, אֵינוֹ נֶאֱמָן. נִשְׁבֵּית וּפְדִיתִיהָ, בֵּין שֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה בֵּין שֶׁהִיא גְדוֹלָה, אֵינוֹ נֶאֱמָן. מִי שֶׁאָמַר בִּשְׁעַת מִיתָתוֹ, יֶשׁ לִי בָנִים, נֶאֱמָן. יֶשׁ לִי אַחִים, אֵינוֹ נֶאֱמָן. הַמְקַדֵּשׁ אֶת בִּתּוֹ סְתָם, אֵין הַבּוֹגְרוֹת בִּכְלָל:

(If one said:) "I betrothed my daughter," (or:) "I betrothed her and divorced her [i.e., I accepted her get] when she was a minor," and she is a minor [now, when he says this about her], he is believed [to disqualify her from (marriage to) the priesthood. For a father is believed in respect to his daughter as long as she is a minor, it being written (Deuteronomy 22:16): "I gave my daughter to this man" (lit., "to (a) man, this"). "to (a) man" forbids her to all men, for we do not know to whom. When he then says: "this," he permits her to him.] (If he said:) "I betrothed her and divorced her when she was a minor," and she is now of age [i.e., If he said this after she came of age, not having said it when she was a minor], he is not believed. (If he said:) "She was taken captive, and I redeemed her," whether she is a minor or of age, he is not believed [to disqualify her from (marriage to) the priesthood. For the Torah granted credence to the father only in respect to marriage, but not in respect to captivity.] If one said before his death: "I have children" [and my wife does not require yibum], he is believed. (If he said:) "I have brothers" [and my wife requires yibum (his wife, until then, having been assumed not to require it)], he is not believed. If one betrothed his daughter without specifying (which daughter he intended), the bogroth (those at the age of majority) are not included. [For they are not under their father's jurisdiction to be betrothed by him. And even if the bogereth made him a messenger to accept her betrothal, we say that a man does not forsake a mitzvah which is incumbent upon him to perform a mitzvah which is not incumbent upon him. But his minor and maiden daughters all require a get on the possibility (of having been betrothed), for we do not know which one of them he betrothed.]

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