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If he makes divorce contingent upon divorce and then makes it contingent upon her standing, or makes it contingent upon her standing and then upon the occurrence of divorce, and she stands, she is divorced by two pronouncements in either case. If he makes it contingent upon her standing and then upon his divorcing her, and she stands, then there is one pronouncement. If he says, “Whenever I divorce you,” or, “Whenever my divorce takes effect upon you, then you are divorced,” and both occur, she is divorced by two pronouncements in the first case and by three in the second.

His statement, “If he makes it contingent upon divorce and then makes it contingent upon her standing, or makes it contingent upon her standing and then upon the occurrence of divorce, and she stands, she is divorced by two pronouncements in either case”: This is where he says, “If I divorce you, then you are divorced,” and then makes divorce contingent upon her standing a second time, saying, “If you stand, then you are divorced.” If she stands, she is divorced by two pronouncements. The first is clear; as for the second, it is because he said, “If I divorce you, then you are divorced.” Thus, when she stands, divorce takes effect upon her, and she is divorced by two pronouncements.

His statement, “in either case,” means in both scenarios: one pronouncement by her standing, and another by his divorcing her that results from her standing in the first scenario.

His statement, “If he makes it contingent upon her standing and then upon his divorcing her, and she stands, then there is one pronouncement”: If he makes divorce contingent upon her standing, then makes it contingent upon his divorcing her, and she stands, “then there is one pronouncement”—that is, she is divorced by one pronouncement due to her standing, but she is not divorced through the divorce made contingent upon his divorcing her, because he did not divorce her.

His statement, “If he says, ‘Whenever I divorce you,’ or, ‘Whenever my divorce takes effect upon you, then you are divorced,’ and both occur, she is divorced by two pronouncements in the first case and by three in the second” (1).