Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nashim/Tractate Kiddushin/Chapter 2/7

Hebrew Text

המקדש אישה ובתה

או אישה ואחותה

כאחת —

אינן מקודשות.

מעשה בחמש נשים,

ובהן שתי אחיות,

וליקט אחד כלכלה של תאנים;

משלהן הייתה, ובשביעית הייתה;

אמר להן, "הרי כולכם מקודשות לי בכלכלה זו,"

וקיבלתה אחת מהן על ידי כולן.

אמרו חכמים: אין האחיות מקודשות.

English Translation

One who betroths a woman and her daughter

or a woman and her sister

simultaneously —

they are not betrothed.

[There was] an incident with five women,

among them two sisters,

and one [man] gathered a basket of dates;

it belonged to them, and it was in the sabbatical year;

he said to them, "All of you are betrothed to me with this basket,"

and one of them accepted it on behalf of all of them.

The sages said: The sisters are not betrothed.

Explanation

they are not betrothed: In each case, a Biblical prohibition prevents the women from being betrothed sequentially.