When he comes to write the scroll, from what point does he write? From: If no man has lain ... But if you have strayed while under [the authority of] your husband ... (vs. 19, 20). But he omits: And the Kohen shall adjure the woman ... (v. 21). He then writes: May HASHEM make you for a curse and an oath ... These curse-causing waters shall enter your innards to make the belly bloat and the thigh fall away (vs. 21, 22). But he omits: And the woman shall answer, “Amen, amen” (v. 22). R’ Yose says: He made no break. R’ Yehudah says: He writes only —- May HASHEM make you for a curse and an oath ... These curse-causing waters shall enter your innards ... (vs. 21, 22). But he omits: And the woman shall answer, “Amen, amen” (v. 22).

He cannot write [it] on a tablet or on a papyrus or on an unprocessed skin but only on a scroll, as it is stated: In a book (v. 23). And he may not write with gum, or vitriol, or with any substance that leaves a mark, only with ink, as it is stated: And he shall dissolve [it] (v. 23) —- a writing that can be dissolved.

To what does she reply, “Amen, amen”? Amen to the curse, amen to the oath; amen with regard to this man; amen with regard to another man; amen that I have not committed adultery while betrothed, while married, while awaiting yibum, or after having been married [in yibum]; amen that I have not been defiled, and that if I have been defiled, these [curses] should come upon me. R’ Meir says: Amen that I have not been defiled, amen that I will never become defiled.

All agree that he cannot stipulate with her concerning [the time] before she was betrothed or [the time] after she will have been divorced. If she secluded herself after [she had been divorced] and became defiled, and he then remarried her, he could not stipulate with her concerning this. This is the rule: Any [incident in] which even if she had cohabited she would not be prohibited to him, he cannot stipulate with her [concerning it].