Talmud for Yevamot 7:5

הָאוֹנֵס, וְהַמְפַתֶּה, וְהַשּׁוֹטֶה, לֹא פוֹסְלִים וְלֹא מַאֲכִילִים. וְאִם אֵינָם רְאוּיִין לָבֹא בְיִשְׂרָאֵל, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ פוֹסְלִין. כֵּיצַד, יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁבָּא עַל בַּת כֹּהֵן, תֹּאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. עִבְּרָה, לֹא תֹאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. נֶחְתַּךְ הָעֻבָּר בְּמֵעֶיהָ, תֹּאכַל. כֹּהֵן שֶׁבָּא עַל בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא תֹאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. עִבְּרָה, לֹא תֹאכַל. יָלְדָה, תֹּאכַל. נִמְצָא כֹּחוֹ שֶׁל בֵּן גָּדוֹל מִשֶּׁל אָב. הָעֶבֶד פּוֹסֵל מִשּׁוּם בִּיאָה, וְאֵינוֹ פוֹסֵל מִשּׁוּם זָרַע. כֵּיצַד, בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְכֹהֵן, בַּת כֹּהֵן לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, וְיָלְדָה הֵימֶנּוּ בֵן, וְהָלַךְ הַבֵּן וְנִכְבַּשׁ עַל הַשִּׁפְחָה, וְיָלְדָה הֵימֶנּוּ בֵן, הֲרֵי זֶה עֶבֶד. הָיְתָה אֵם אָבִיו בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְכֹהֵן לֹא תֹאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. בַּת כֹּהֵן לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, תֹּאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. מַמְזֵר פּוֹסֵל וּמַאֲכִיל. כֵּיצַד, בַּת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְכֹהֵן, וּבַת כֹּהֵן לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, וְיָלְדָה הֵימֶנּוּ בַת, וְהָלְכָה הַבַּת וְנִשֵּׂאת לְעֶבֶד, אוֹ לְגוֹי, וְיָלְדָה הֵימֶנּוּ בֵן, הֲרֵי זֶה מַמְזֵר. הָיְתָה אֵם אִמּוֹ בַת יִשְׂרָאֵל לְכֹהֵן, תֹּאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה. בַּת כֹּהֵן לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא תֹאכַל בַּתְּרוּמָה:

A high-priest sometimes disqualifies. How so? The daughter of a Cohein to an Israelite and she bore a daughter to him. If the daughter went and married a Cohein and bore a son to him, he is qualified to be a high-priest, standing and ministering upon the altar. He causes his mother to eat, and he disqualifies the mother of his mother. [For if not for him, the mother of his mother would return to the terumah of her father's house after the death of her daughter. But so long as he is alive, she does not return to it, it being written (Leviticus 22:11): "and she have no seed" (vezera ein lah) — "ayin alehah" ("look into her") — either the daughter of the daughter of her daughter, or the son of the son of her son (disqualifies her) until the end of all the generations.] And this one (the grandmother) says: "Let there not [be in Israeli many] like my (grand-) son, the high-priest, who disqualifies me from eating terumah!"

Jerusalem Talmud Sotah

From where that the intercourse of a disabled disables⁹⁰Disables a woman of the priestly clan (a wife or a daughter) from eating sanctified food such as heave; cf. Yebamot 7:5.? What are we talking about? If about a married woman, there is a serious [offense].⁹¹Adultery is a capital crime. If about a widow married to the High Priest, it already is written “The man shall bring his wife to the Cohen.⁹²Cf. Note 87. Mishnah 1 already stated that a forbidden wife is not counted as a wife and we just have established that the intercourse with a man who cannot be legally married bars a woman from priesthood.” What is equal between them is: Everybody’s intercourse disqualifies those whose descendant would be disqualified⁹³The child of the otherwise married woman is a bastard, the child of the widow married to the High Priest is desecrated.. ⁹⁴This text is from Yebamot 7:5, Notes 111–116. These are: “A child of nine years and one day, an Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, or Egyptian proselyte, or a bastard, desecrated, Gibeonite, Samaritan, and Gentile who had intercourse with the daughter of a Cohen, a Levite, or an Israel, disqualified her for the priesthood. Rebbi Yose said, everybody’s intercourse disqualifies those whose descendant would be disqualified; his intercourse does not disqualify those whose descendant would not be disqualified. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, in all cases, if his daughter is permitted to you, so is his widow; if his daughter is not permitted to you, neither is his widow.”

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