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How can one atone for sixty oaths sworn to abandon three forbidden acts, which were then committed, bearing in mind that the monetary expiation seems to be a large sum?

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Repeating an oath concerning a single matter necessitates only one expiation upon breaking it. However, taking oaths concerning multiple matters requires an expiation for each oath. So, if you swore twenty times concerning three matters, and then broke these oaths, only three expiations are due. But if you swear and then break the oath, then swear again and break it again, you owe an expiation for each oath. Some scholars hold the view that only one expiation is due, unless you had already performed expiation before. The expiation for an oath is feeding ten poor persons, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If you are unable to do any of these, then you must fast three days for each oath, and it is more cautious that these be consecutive.

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