His statement, “But if he says instead, ‘If your pregnancy,’ or ‘what is in your womb,’ she is not divorced on account of either of them”:

If he says, “If your pregnancy is a male child, then you are divorced by one pronouncement; and if your pregnancy is a female child, then you are divorced by two pronouncements,” and she gives birth to a male and a female, she is not divorced. This is because her pregnancy was not one thing; rather, it consisted of a male and a female. Yet he said, “If your pregnancy is male,” and, “If your pregnancy is female.” This differs from their saying, “If you are pregnant with a male, and if you are pregnant with a female.” Such matters are among the subtleties of knowledge to which only students of knowledge pay attention.