Talmud for Yevamot 1:3

שֵׁשׁ עֲרָיוֹת חֲמוּרוֹת מֵאֵלּוּ, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁנְּשׂוּאוֹת לַאֲחֵרִים, צָרוֹתֵיהֶן מֻתָּרוֹת. אִמּוֹ, וְאֵשֶׁת אָבִיו, וַאֲחוֹת אָבִיו, אֲחוֹתוֹ מֵאָבִיו, וְאֵשֶׁת אֲחִי אָבִיו, וְאֵשֶׁת אָחִיו מֵאָבִיו:

Six arayoth are more stringent than these [and what is their "stringency"?] — being married to others, [not being able to marry his brother from his father. And if their husbands die, who are not kin to this one, their tzaroth are permitted to marry him. For the tzarah of an ervah is forbidden to him only when she falls before him for yibum from his brother. And Rabbeinu Moshe ben Maimon explained: If they wed his brother illicitly, and he died without children, and they fell for yibum before him, their tzaroth are permitted. For these are not tzaroth of ervah, the marriage of his brother to these arayoth not being binding.] Their tzaroth are permitted: his mother [She may not marry his brother from his father, being forbidden to him by reason of "the wife of his father" (this according to the view that the anussah of his father is forbidden. I explained above that this is not the halachah; but that his mother exempts her tzarah, his mother being permitted to marry his brother from his father.)], the wife of his father, the sister of his father, his sister from his father, and the wife of his brother from his father [who had children. All are forbidden to his brother just as they are forbidden to him, and he never has any yibum linkage with these. If others married them, and they had other wives, and they died, their tzaroth are permitted to marry him. Likewise, if his brother married them illicitly and he died without children, their tzaroth are permitted.]

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