Mesorat%20hashas for Kiddushin 153:6

בת בנו תישתרי כתיב לא יחלל זרעו מקיש זרעו לו מה הוא בתו פסולה אף בנו בתו פסולה בת בתו תיתסר אם כן גזירה שוה מאי אהני ליה

so here too, males but not females.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., only the males are disqualified by a forbidden priestly marriage, but not the females; hence the daughters of the former are unfit for the priesthood, but not of the latter.');">⁸</span> If so, let a High Priest's daughter [from a widow] be permitted [to marry a priest]? - Is it then written: '[and he shall not profane] his son'? 'His seed' is written, viz. , he shall not profane his seed among his people.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence the gezerah shawah merely shews that the female offsprings of his female descendants are permitted, but not his own daughters.');">⁹</span> Then let the daughter of his son be permitted? - It is written, he shall not profane his seed: [hence] his seed is assimilated to himself: just as his own daughter is unfit, so is his son's daughter unfit - Then let his daughter's daughter [too] be interdicted?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By the same reasoning.');">¹⁰</span>

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