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Sforno on Exodus 4:26/ספורנו על שמות ד׳:כ״ו
אוַיִּרֶף מִמֶּנּוּ. אֲבָל לֹא הִנִּיחוֹ לְגַמְרֵי.
1וירף ממנו, he released him partially, but not totally, as until the second part of the circumcision, the פריעה, the uncovering of the corona, had been performed the ritual is considered incomplete, and not valid.
באָז אָמְרָה חֲתַן דָּמִים לַמּוּלֹת. כְּשֶׁהָיִיתָ חָתָן אָמַרְתָּ שֶׁנּוֹצִיא דָּמִים בִּשְׁתֵּי מִילוֹת, שֶׁהֵן כְּרִיתַת הַמִּילָה וְהַפְּרִיעָה:
2אז אמרה חתן דמים למולות, when you were a bridegroom you said that the circumcision involves the removal of some blood during two stages of the circumcision, first the cutting off of the foreskin, then the severing of membrane over the corona.