Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 10:5

אָמְרוּ לוֹ, מֵתָה אִשְׁתְּךָ, וְנָשָׂא אֲחוֹתָהּ מֵאָבִיהָ, מֵתָה, וְנָשָׂא אֲחוֹתָהּ מֵאִמָּהּ, מֵתָה, וְנָשָׂא אֲחוֹתָהּ מֵאָבִיהָ, מֵתָה, וְנָשָׂא אֲחוֹתָהּ מֵאִמָּהּ, וְנִמְצְאוּ כֻלָּן קַיָּמוֹת, מֻתָּר בָּרִאשׁוֹנָה, בַּשְּׁלִישִׁית, וּבַחֲמִישִׁית, וּפוֹטְרוֹת צָרוֹתֵיהֶן, וְאָסוּר בַּשְּׁנִיָּה וּבָרְבִיעִית, וְאֵין בִּיאַת אַחַת מֵהֶן פּוֹטֶרֶת צָרָתָהּ. וְאִם בָּא עַל הַשְּׁנִיָּה לְאַחַר מִיתַת הָרִאשׁוֹנָה, מֻתָּר בַּשְּׁנִיָּה וּבָרְבִיעִית, וּפוֹטְרוֹת צָרוֹתֵיהֶן, וְאָסוּר בַּשְּׁלִישִׁית וּבַחֲמִישִׁית, וְאֵין בִּיאַת אַחַת מֵהֶן פּוֹטֶרֶת צָרָתָהּ:

If they said to him: Your wife died, and he married her sister from her father [not from her mother], and then [they said to him:] she [the second] died, and he married her [the second's] sister from her mother [and not from her father, so that the third is a stranger to the first], and then [they said to him:] she [the third] died, and he married her [the third's] sister from her father [and not from her mother, so that the fourth is a stranger to the second, and, it goes without saying, to the first], and then [they said to him:] she [the fourth] died, and he married her sister from her mother [so that she is a stranger to the third, and, likewise, to the first and to the second], and then they were all found to be alive [i.e., they said to him that they are all alive], he is permitted to the first, the third, and the fifth [for they are not kin to one another. And though the third is the sister of the second, she is permitted; for the betrothal of the second did not "take," she being "his wife's sister" to the first, whom he had married before, so that she (the second) is like his ravished or seduced one (concerning which it is ruled that if one ravished a woman he is permitted to marry her daughter), the Torah having forbidden the sister of a wife alone; and where betrothal does not "take," she is not "the sister of a wife." And, similarly, with the fifth. Though she is the sister of the fourth, she is permitted to him. For since betrothal "took" in the third, the cohabitation of the fourth, who is a sister of the third, is found to be one of z'nuth, and the fifth is not forbidden to him.] And they exempt their tzaroth. [If he (the husband) died, and the yavam came and took one of them in yibum, he exempts her tzarah.] And he is forbidden to the second [because of the first] and to the fourth [because of the third.] And cohabitation with either one of them (the second or the fourth) does not exempt her tzarah (i.e., the husband's wives). And if he cohabited with the second after the death of the first, [the account of her death being true, and of the death of the others, false], he is permitted to the second and the fourth, and they exempt their tzaroth; and he is forbidden to the third [because of the second] and to the fifth [because of the fourth]. And cohabitation with either one of them (the third or the fifth) does not exempt her tzarah.

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