Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot 15.10

משנה: הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁהָלְכָה הִיא וּבַעֲלָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם וּבְנָהּ עִמָּהֶם בָּאָה וְאָמְרָה מֵת בְּנִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בַּעֲלִי נֶאֱמֶנֶת. מֵת בַּעֲלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בְּנִי אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת וְחוֹשְׁשִׁין לִדְבָרֶיהָ וְחוֹלֶצֶת וְלֹא מִתְיַיבֶּמֶת. נִיתַּן לִי בֵן בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם אָמְרָה מֵת בְּנִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בַּעֲלִי נֶאֱמֶנֶת מֵת בַּעֲלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בְּנִי אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת וְחוֹשְׁשִׁין לִדְבָרֶיהָ וְחוֹלֶצֶת וְלֹא מִתְיַיבֶּמֶת. נִתַּן לִי יָבָם בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם אָמְרָה מֵת בַּעֲלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת יְבָמִי. יְבָמִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בַּעֲלִי נֶאֱמֶנֶת. הָלְכָה הִיא וּבַעֲלָהּ וִיבָמָהּ לִמְדִינַת הַיָּם אָמְרָה מֵת בַּעֲלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת יְבָמִי יְבָמִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ בַּעֲלִי אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת שֶׁאֵין הָאִשָּׁה נֶאֱמֶנֶת לוֹמַר. מֶת יְבָמִי. שֶׁתִּינָּשֵׂא. וְלֹא. מֵתָה אֲחוֹתִי. שֶׁתִּיכָּנֵס לְבֵיתוֹ. וְאֵין הָאִישׁ נֶאֱמָן לוֹמַר מֵת אָחִי שֶׁיְּיַבֵּם אִשְׁתּוֹ וְלֹא מֵתָה אִשְׁתִּי שֶׁיִּשָּׂא אֶת אֲחוֹתָהּ.

MISHNAH: A woman went overseas with her husband and her son; if she returns and says, “my husband died and after that my sondied,” she is to be believed. “My son died and after that my husband died,” she is not believed but one takes her words into account and she performs ḥalîṣah but is excluded from levirate. “I had a son overseas,” she says, “my son died and after him my husband,” she is believed; “my husband died and after that my son,” she is not believed but one takes her words into account and she performs ḥalîṣah but is excluded from levirate. “A levir was given to me overseas;” if she said “my husband died and after that my levir” [or] “my levir died and after that my husband”, she is to be believed. If she, her husband, and her levir went overseas, if she said “my husband died and after that my levir” [or] “my levir died and after that my husband”, she is not to be believed, since no woman is believed if she says “my levir died” that she might marry [outside the family] nor “my sister died” that she might enter his house. Also the husband is not to be believed if he says “my brother died” that he might marry his wife in levirate, nor “my wife died” that he might marry her sister.

הלכה: נִיתַּן לִי בֵן בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם. רִבִּי חֲנַניָה בְּעָא קוֹמֵי רִבִּי אִילָא. מָן תַּנָּא חוֹשְׁשִׁין לִדְבָרֶיהָ חוֹלֶצֶת. רִבִּי טַרְפוֹן דְּלֹא כְרִבִּי עֲקִיבָא. אָמַר לֵיהּ. דִּבְרֵי הַכֹּל הוּא הָכָא אוֹף רִבִּי עֲקִיבָה מוֹדֶה בָהּ. מַה בֵינָהּ לְקַדְמִיָיתָא. הָכָא תֵימַר אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת. וְכָה תֵימַר. נֶאֱמֶנֶת. (בְּשֶׁיָּצְתָה מִכְּלָל הֵיתֵר לְיִיבֻּם. וְ)הֵן דְּתֵימַר. אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת. בְּשֶׁלֹּא יָצְתָה מִכְּלָל הֵיתֵר לְיִבֻּם.

HALAKHAH: “I had a son overseas.” Rebbi Ḥanania asked before Rebbi Hila: Who is the one who stated that one takes her words into account and she performs ḥalîṣah? Rebbi Tarphon, but not Rebbi Aqibah! He said to him, it is the opinion of everybody and even Rebbi Aqiba agrees to it. What is the difference betweeen this statement and the first one? There, you say that she is not to be believed. But here, you say that she is believed! (When she left as included in the permission of levirate. But) where you say that she is not believed, when she left and was not included in the permission of levirate.

אָמַר רִבִּי יוֹסֵה. מַתְנִיתָא אָמְרָה כֵן שֶׁלֹּא עָשׂוּ [זְכָרִים] כִּנְקֵיבוֹת. דְּתַנִינָן [תַּמָּן]. שֶׁאֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת לוֹמַר. מֵת יְבָמִי. תִּנָּשֵׂא. וְלֹא מֵתָה אֲחוֹתִי. שֶׁתִּכָּנֵס לְבֵיתָהּ. מִפְּנֵי שֶׁאֵין לָהּ בָנִים. הָא אִם יֵשׁ לָהּ בָּנִים נֶאֱמֶנֶת.

Rebbi Yose said, a Mishnah says that they did not treat the males as they treat the females, as we have stated there: “because she is not trusted if she says, my levir died, that she should be free to remarry, nor that her sister died, to enter her house.” Because she has no children. But if she has children, she is trustworthy.