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How can a non-working female student pay delayed atonements for oaths, and is fasting three days sufficient for each atonement, and how are ten needy people fed?

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If a person is unable to offer expiation for an oath by feeding, clothing, or emancipating a slave due to lack of financial means, he moves on to fasting three days for each expiation. One should hasten to perform the expiation by fasting and not wait to accumulate money, due to the jurisprudential disagreement about whether expiation is to be performed immediately or can be delayed; the more cautious approach is immediacy. If he is able to feed for some of the expiations but not all, he must feed for the amount he is able to, and fast for the remainder.

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