Talmud for Yevamot 13:1

בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, אֵין מְמָאֲנִין אֶלָּא אֲרוּסוֹת. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, אֲרוּסוֹת וּנְשׂוּאוֹת. בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, בַּבַּעַל וְלֹא בַיָּבָם. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, בַּבַּעַל וּבַיָּבָם. בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, בְּפָנָיו. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, בְּפָנָיו וְשֶׁלֹּא בְפָנָיו. בֵּית שַׁמַּאי אוֹמְרִים, בְּבֵית דִּין. וּבֵית הִלֵּל אוֹמְרִים, בְּבֵית דִּין וְשֶׁלֹּא בְבֵית דִּין. אָמְרוּ לָהֶן בֵּית הִלֵּל לְבֵית שַׁמַּאי, מְמָאֶנֶת וְהִיא קְטַנָּה, אֲפִלּוּ אַרְבָּעָה וַחֲמִשָּׁה פְעָמִים. אָמְרוּ לָהֶן בֵּית שַׁמַּאי, אֵין בְּנוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל הֶפְקֵר, אֶלָּא מְמָאֶנֶת וּמַמְתֶּנֶת עַד שֶׁתַּגְדִּיל, וּתְמָאֵן וְתִנָּשֵׂא:

Beth Shammai say: Refusal [miun] obtains only with the betrothed. [An orphan girl who was wed by her mother and her brothers can refuse only from betrothal (and not from marriage).] Beth Hillel say: Both with the betrothed and with the married. Beth Shammai say: With the husband, but not with the yavam. [If her husband died without her having refused him, and she fell before the yavam, she is not released with miun, but she waits until she comes of age and she performs chalitzah]. Beth Hillel say: (Refusal obtains) with both the husband and the yavam. Beth Shammai say: (Only) before him. Beth Hillel say: (Both) in beth-din and not in beth-din. Beth Hillel said to Beth Shammai: She may refuse when she is a minor, even four or five times. Beth Shammai rejoined: "The daughters of Israel are not hefker" ("abandoned ones") [and even from betrothal she cannot refuse and betroth herself to another and refuse again], but she refuses [this one] and waits [to become betrothed to another] until she comes of age, and she refuses and marries. [Not that she refuses another time, but that she refuses and waits to betroth another until she comes of age. Or, if she wishes to marry, she refuses her husband and marries immediately, for being married, she can no longer refuse according to Beth Shammai.]

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