Related for Kiddushin 151:1
ופוטרים את הנשואות מאי דרשי (דברים כה, ה) לא תהיה אשת המת החוצה לאיש זר הך דיתבה חוצה היא לא תהיה לאיש זר אבל הך דלא יתבה חוצה תהיה לאיש זר
but exempted married women.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Altogether, even from halizah.');"><sup>1</sup></span> What was their interpretation?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That led them to this ruling.');"><sup>2</sup></span> - The wife of the dead shall not marry without [ha-huzah] unto a stranger:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXV, 5. On this translation, hahuzah is a locative adverb governed by 'marry'.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
Tosefta Kiddushin
A female Levite or female Yisrael—[one who seeks to marry them should] add upon them an additional one [generation on both sides that he should investigate to understand their lineage, 1 more than for a female Kohen], which is 12 [people to investigate]. (The following translated from the Ehrfurt manuscript:) If he investigated the mother, he does not need to investigate the children. If he investigated the adults, he does not need to investigate the minors. When does this apply? When [investigating a family that has] one wife. But when [the family has] 2 wives—if he investigated the mother, he needs to investigate the children; and if he investigated the adults, he needs to investigate the minors [because they might be born from different women].
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