Mishnayos Yevamos Perek 15 Mishnah 9
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If she went with her childless husband and returned alone and testified: A son was born to me overseas, and she further said: My son died and afterward my husband died, she is deemed credible and may even enter into levirate marriage, as she was presumed to be childless when she left and consequently she retains that presumptive status. However, if she said: My husband died and afterward my son died, she is not deemed credible for the purpose of exempting her from levirate marriage, but the court is concerned about her statement. And therefore she must perform ḥalitza and she does not enter into levirate marriage.
נִתַּן לִי בֵן בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם, וְאָמְרָה מֵת בְּנִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בַּעְלִי, נֶאֱמֶנֶת. מֵת בַּעְלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בְּנִי, אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת, וְחוֹשְׁשִׁים לִדְבָרֶיהָ, וְחוֹלֶצֶת וְלֹא מִתְיַבֶּמֶת:
Bartenura
ניתן לי במדינת הים. ומת בני ואחר כך מת בעלי, דלא מפקא נפשה מחזקה קמייתא, שאומרת עדיין היא צריכה ליבם, נאמנת ומותרת להתיבם:
אינה נאמנת. להנשא לשוק בלא חליצה, דכי הימנוה רבנן לאשה, גבי בעלה הימנוה, משום דדייקא ומנסבה, אבל לאפוקי נפשה מיבם לא הימנוה, משום דזמנין דסניא ליה:
וחוששין לדבריה. דאפקא נפשה מיבם, וחולצת ולא מתיבמת:
ניתן לה בן במדינת הים – and my son died and after[wards], my husband died, we don’t remove her from the original legal presumption that she says that she still needs to marry the levir, she is believed and permitted to be married by the levir.
אינה נאמנת – to marry anyone in the world without removal of her brother-in-law’s shoe, for the Rabbis believed her as a wife, concerning her husband she is believed, because of evidence by implication and she is allowed to marry, but to free herself from the levir, she is not believed because sometimes she is hated by him and we suspect her words for she frees herself from the levir, and removes her levir’s shoe and does not marry the levir.