Talmud for Yevamot 41:15
ואשת חורגו אומרת לו אני מותרת לך ובתי אסורה לך
— It is Pentateuchal' but the Rabbis have expounded it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence it must come under the second degree. ');"><sup>37</sup></span> All the Torah, surely- was expounded by the Rabbis!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And yet no one would describe those laws as of the second degree! ');"><sup>38</sup></span> But [the fact is that the prohibition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Of incest of the second degree. ');"><sup>39</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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