Talmud for Yevamot 41:10
ר' אושעיא אמר מהכא (משלי ד, טו) פרעהו אל תעבר בו שטה מעליו ועבור
Rab Judah said: It<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An allusion to the prohibition of relations in the second degree. ');"><sup>25</sup></span> may be derived from the following: Yea he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Eccl. XII, 9. ');"><sup>26</sup></span> in relation to which 'Ulla said in the name of R. Eleazar, 'Before Solomon appeared, the Torah was like a basket without handles; when<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'until'. ');"><sup>27</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Yevamot
How can one prove secondary prohibitions? Rebbi Ḥuna said: “These86Lev. 18:27, כִּי אֶת־כָּל־הַתּוֹעֵבוֹת הָאֵל “all these abominations”, these should have been written הָאֵלֶּה; the short form is taken as a hint of the root אל “power” (the meaning of the word commonly but wrongly translated as “God”).”, the strong ones. This implies that there are weaker ones87In the Babli, 21a, the argument is in the name of Rava.. The following are the secondary prohibitions88Babli 21a, Tosephta 3:1 (parallels the Babli in content and the Yerushalmi in language), Derekh Ereṣ Rabba 1, extended to contain most of the next paragraph.: His paternal grandmother and his maternal grandmother, his paternal grandfather’s wife and his maternal grandfathers wife, his grandson’s wife whether from son or daughter, the wife of his mother’s brother and the wife of his father’s maternal brother.
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