10. A “bald” get may be completed by anyone; [these are] the words of Ben Nannas. R' Akiva says: No one may complete it, except relatives, who are qualified to testify elsewhere. What is a “bald” get? Any whose bindings are more than its witnesses.

[If] one divorced his wife and said to her: “You are permitted to every man, except So-and-so” —- R' Eliezer permits [her]; the Sages, however, prohibit [her]. What shall he do? He must take it from her and give it to her again, and say to her: “You are permitted to every man.” If he wrote it inside it, although he subsequently erased it, it is void.

[If one said:] “You are permitted to every man, except Father and your father,” “my brother and your brother,” [or] “a slave and a gentile,” or anyone with whom she cannot have kiddushin, it is valid.  [If he said:] “You are permitted to every man except ...” —- [if she was] a widow, “to the Kohen Gadol”; [or if she was] a divorcee or a chalutzah, “to an ordinary Kohen”; [or if she was] a mamzeres or a Nesinite, “to a [regular] Jew”; [or if she was] the daughter of a [regular] Jew, “to a mamzer or a Nesinite”; or to anyone with whom she can have kiddushin —- even illicitly —- it is void.

The essence of a get [is]: “You are permitted to every man.” R' Yehudah says: “And this, which shall be to you from me, [is] a writ of divorce, a letter of abandonment, and a bill of release, to go to be married to any man that you want.''  The essence of a document of emancipation [is]: “You are a free woman,” [or] “You are to yourself.”