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8. b. Shabbat 110b.

9. Mishnah Ketubot 5.6.

10. Mekhilta Ex 21.10; Ket 61b; Tur, Shulhan Arukh Even Haezer 76. 11. Mishnah Ketubot 5.7, b. Nedarim 20b.

12. b. Sanhedrin 75a.

13. Bamidbar Rabbah 9 commenting on Ezekiel 16.31.

14. Vayigra Rabbah 23.

15. Matthew 5.28.

16. b. Berakhot 61a, 24a, Epstein pp. 104-131.

17. Yad, Hilkhot Yom Tov 6.21.

18. Epstein , Op. Cit., p. 76.

19. b. Sukkah 51b.

20. Epstein , Op.Cit., pp 83-93.

21. b. Kiddushin 82a, Ketubot 6b, Shabbat 118a, Avodah Zarah 22b.

22. b. Kiddushin 82a, Ketubot 6b, Shabbat 118a, Avodah Zarah 22b. 23. b. Yevamot 63b

24. b. Yeb 36b.

25. The codes went beyond the requirements of two children Yeb 6.61; Yad Hil. Isheret 15.6; Shulhan Arukh, Even Haezer 1.5.

26. The thorough responsum of Jacob Z. Lauderbach"Birth Control, " in American Reform Responsa, Walter Jacob ,(ed), New York , 1983, pp 485 ff, discusses all the sources. Yeb 34b.

27. John M. Riddle, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, Cambridge, 1992.