Translation:Mishnah/Seder Nashim/Tractate Kiddushin/Chapter 4/4

Hebrew Text

הנושא אישה כוהנת

צריך לבדוק אחריה ארבע אימהות, שהן שמונה —

אימה, ואם אימה,

ואם אבי אימה, ואימה,

אם אביה, ואימה,

אם אבי אביה, ואימה.

לויים וישראל מוסיפין עליהן עוד אחת.

English Translation

One who marries a woman who is Priestly

needs to investigate her [regarding] four mothers, which are eight —

her mother, and her mother's mother,

her mother's father's mother, and her mother,

her father's mother, and her mother,

her father's father's mother, and her mother.

Levites and [ordinary] Jew[s] add on to these another one.