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.



Explanation
משנה קידושין ד ד