Hebrew · Jerusalem Talmud, ed. Guggenheimer (Hebrew/Aramaic)כְּתִיב וְאִישׁ אֲשֶּׁר יִקַּח אֶת אִשָּׁה וְאֶת אִמָּהּ זִימָּה הִיא. בְּכוֹלְּהֹן כְּתִיב שְׁכִיבָה וְכָאן כְּתִיב לְקִיחָה. לְלַמְּדָךְ. לְעוֹלָם אֵינוֹ מִתְחַיֵיב עַל הַשְּׁנִיָיה עַד שֶׁתְּהֵא הָרִאשׁוֹנָה זְקוּקָה לוֹ. אוֹ אֵינוֹ אֶלָּא דֶרֶךְ נִישּׂוּאִין. כְּבָר אָמַרְנוּ שֶׁאֵין קִידּוּשִׁין בָּעֲרָיוֹת. וְהָכְתִיב לֹא יִקַּח אִישׁ אֶת אֵשֶּׁת אָבִיו וְלֹא יְגַלֶּה כְּנַף אָבִיו. בָּא לְהוֹדִיעָךְ שֶׁהָיָה מוּתָּר בָּהּ עַד שֶׁלֹּא נִישֵּׂאת לְאָבִיו. וְהָכְתִיב וְאִישׁ אֲשֶּׁר יִקַּח אֶת אֵשֶׁת אָחִיו נִדָּה הִיא. בָּא לְהוֹדִיעָךְ שֶׁהָיָה מוּתָּר בָּהּ עַד שֶׁלֹּא נִישֵּׂאת לְאָחִיו. וְתַנֵּי כֵן. עַל יְדֵי יִיבּוּם. וְהָכְתִיב וְאִשָּׁה אֶל אֲחוֹתָהּ לֹא תִקָּח לִצְרוֹר. בָּא לְהוֹדִיעָךְ שֶׁהָיָה מוּתָּר בָּהּ עַד שֶׁלֹּא נָשָׂא אֶת אֲחוֹתָהּ. וְתַנֵּי כֵן. לְאַחַר מִיתַת אֲחוֹתָהּ. וְהָכְתִיב וְאִישׁ אֲשֶׁר יִקַּח אֶת אֲחוֹתוֹ בַּת אָבִיו אוֹ בַת אִמּוֹ וְרָאָה אֶת עֶרְוָתָהּ וְהִיא תִרְאֶה אֶת עֶרְוָתוֹ חֶסֶד הוּא. אָמַר רִבִּי אָבִין. שֶׁלֹּא תֹאמַר. קַיִן נָשָׂא אֶת אֲחוֹתוֹ. הֶבֶל נָשָׂא אֶת אֲחוֹתוֹ. חֶסֶד הוּא. חֶסֶד עָשִׂיתִי עִם הָרִאשּׁוֹנִים שֶׁיִיבָּנֶה הָעוֹלָם מֵהֶן. אָמַרְתִּי עוֹלָם חֶסֶד יִבָּנֶה. וְהָכְתִיב אַלְמָנָה וּגְרוּשָׁה וַחֲלָלָה זוֹנָה אֶת אֵלֶּה לא יִקָּח. בָּא לְהוֹדִיעָךְ שֶׁאִם קִידְּשָׁהּ שֶׁתּוֹפְסִין בָּהּ קִידּוּשִׁין.
English · Heinrich W. GuggenheimerIt is written: “If a man takes a woman and her mother, it is taboo.” Everywhere is written “lying with” but here is written “taking”, to teach you that he cannot be guilty for the second [woman] unless the first one is prepared for him. Or maybe only by marriage? We already said that there is no incestuous marriage. But is it not written: “Nobody may marry his father’s wife, and he should not uncover his father’s garment’s corner”? This comes to tell you that she was permitted to him before his father married her. But is it not written: “If a man take his brother’s wife, it is despicable”? This comes to tell you that she was permitted to him before his brother married her. This is confirmed by levirate. But is it not written: “You should not take a woman in addition to her sister to make her a co-wife”? This comes to tell you that she was permitted to him before he married her sister. This is confirmed after her sister’s death. But is it not written: “A man who would take his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter; he sees her genitals and she sees his genitals, it is ḥesed.” Rebbi Avin said, that you should not say that Kain married his sister, Abel married his sister, “it is charitable”, I was charitable with the first generations so the world could be inhabited; “I said, the world was built on ḥesed.” But is it not written: “Widow, divorcee, and desecrated, these he shall not take”? This comes to tell you that if he became betrothed to her that the betrothal is valid.