it once happened with a certain man whose name was yoanan  and whose wife was miriam, that he had a certain hebrew  maidservant who was espied by a man whose name was joseph,  the son of pandera. he had taken notice of the man's  maidservant and came upon her whilst she was impure, by  reason of her natural purgation, and had laid with her when she  was lying alone in the dark. at which incident, she became  startled and could not answer him a word until the morning,  when she then said to her husband: yoanan, my master! why  hast thou done this night that which is not lawful? for thou hast  come upon me twice. moreover, i did warn you that i was  unclean, yet, hast thou not heeded my warning. at this saying, he was very much distraught and went and told the matter to shimon, the son of sheta. he said to him: i will  tell thee what happened to me this night. for my wife came and  said unto me that such and such a thing had befallen her, but it  was not me who had connexion with her. he then answered:  who is it that thou dost suspect? he said: a certain one of  my neighbors whose name is joseph, the son of pandera. he  asked him: hast thou any witnesses? he answered: i have no  witnesses. he then replied: go and conceal the witnesses from  the culprit, for if he went in once, he will go in again. if you will  do this thing, thou shalt make him liable thereby to the death  penalty. yoanan sat there idly and did not do a thing, until he overheard  the town taken up entirely with the gossip over this matter, even  those who were saying she committed an act of whoredom. now  because of the public's slander, he went off into babylonia, and did not return. meanwhile, his wife gave birth to a son whose  name is jesus, may the name of the wicked rot.
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