(ח) רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אֵין מַעֲלִין לַכְּהֻנָּה עַל פִּי עֵד אֶחָד. אָמַר רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר, אֵימָתַי, בִּמְקוֹם שֶׁיֵּשׁ עוֹרְרִין. אֲבָל בִּמְקוֹם שֶׁאֵין עוֹרְרִין, מַעֲלִין לַכְּהֻנָּה עַל פִּי עֵד אֶחָד. רַבָּן שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן גַּמְלִיאֵל אוֹמֵר מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן הַסְּגָן, מַעֲלִין לַכְּהֻנָּה עַל פִּי עֵד אֶחָד:
(ט) הָאִשָּׁה שֶׁנֶּחְבְּשָׁה בִידֵי גוֹיִם עַל יְדֵי מָמוֹן, מֻתֶּרֶת לְבַעְלָהּ. עַל יְדֵי נְפָשׁוֹת, אֲסוּרָה לְבַעְלָהּ. עִיר שֶׁכְּבָשָׁהּ כַּרְכּוֹם, כָּל כֹּהֲנוֹת שֶׁנִּמְצְאוּ בְתוֹכָהּ, פְּסוּלוֹת. וְאִם יֵשׁ לָהֶן עֵדִים, אֲפִלּוּ עֶבֶד, אֲפִלּוּ שִׁפְחָה, הֲרֵי אֵלּוּ נֶאֱמָנִין. וְאֵין נֶאֱמָן אָדָם עַל יְדֵי עַצְמוֹ. אָמַר רַבִּי זְכַרְיָה בֶן הַקַּצָּב, הַמָּעוֹן הַזֶּה, לֹא זָזָה יָדָהּ מִתּוֹךְ יָדִי מִשָּׁעָה שֶׁנִּכְנְסוּ גוֹיִם לִירוּשָׁלַיִם וְעַד שֶׁיָּצָאוּ. אָמְרוּ לוֹ, אֵין אָדָם מֵעִיד עַל יְדֵי עַצְמוֹ:
(י) וְאֵלוּ נֶאֱמָנִין לְהָעִיד בְּגָדְלָן מָה שֶׁרָאוּ בְקָטְנָן. נֶאֱמָן אָדָם לוֹמַר, זֶה כְתַב יָדוֹ שֶׁל אַבָּא, וְזֶה כְתַב יָדוֹ שֶׁל רַבִּי, וְזֶה כְתַב יָדוֹ שֶׁל אָחִי. זָכוּר הָיִיתִי בִפְלוֹנִית שֶׁיָּצְתָה בְהִנּוּמָא, וְרֹאשָׁהּ פָּרוּעַ. וְשֶׁהָיָה אִישׁ פְּלוֹנִי יוֹצֵא מִבֵּית הַסֵּפֶר לִטְבֹּל לֶאֱכֹל בַּתְּרוּמָה. וְשֶׁהָיָה חוֹלֵק עִמָּנוּ עַל הַגֹּרֶן. וְהַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה בֵּית הַפְּרָס. וְעַד כָּאן הָיִינוּ בָאִין בְּשַׁבָּת. אֲבָל אֵין אָדָם נֶאֱמָן לוֹמַר, דֶּרֶךְ הָיָה לִפְלוֹנִי בַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה, מַעֲמָד וּמִסְפֵּד הָיָה לִפְלוֹנִי בַמָּקוֹם הַזֶּה:
(8) Rabbi Yehudah says, "We do not promote [someone] to the kehuna [priesthood] based on the testimony of [only] one witness." Rabbi Eliezer says, "When [is this true]? In a case where there are protesters; but in a case where there are no protesters, we do promote to the kehuna based on the testimony of [only] one witness." Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says in the name of Rabbi Shimon, son of the adjutant [kohen gadol (high priest)], "We do promote to the kehuna based on the testimony of one witness.'
(9) With regard to a woman who is imprisoned in the hands of gentiles: [If she is held] on account of money, she is [after her liberation] permitted to her husband. [But if she is held] under sentence of death, she is forbidden to her husband. With regard to a town that a militia conquered it, all the priestesses that are found within it become disqualified [to marry priests]. But if they have witnesses [to attest that they have not been defiled], even [though it be] a slave or a maidservant, they are believed; but no man is believed [to testify] about himself. [A kohen,] Rabbi Zechariah ben HaKatzav declared: "[By] this [holy] temple, [I swear my wife's] hand did not move from my hand from the time the gentiles entered into Jerusalem, and until they left." [The Sages] said to him: "No man is believed [to testify] about himself."
(10) These [men] are believed to testify, upon growing up, to what they saw while children. A man is believed to say, "This is the handwriting of my father;" "this is my teacher's handwriting;" [or] "this is my brother's handwriting;" [or] "I remember that a certain woman went out [to be married] in a henuma , and with her hair loosened," [or] "that so and so left the school to bathe and eat teruma [A portion of a crop given to a Kohen which becomes holy upon separation, and can only be consumed by Kohanim or their household], and that he partook with us on the threshing floor;" [or] "that this place is a beit hapras [a field in which a grave has been plowed over]" [or] "until this [spot] did we go on Shabbat." But a man is not believed to say, "So and so had a right of thoroughfare in this place;" [nor] "So and so had [rights to] a place for the escorting of mourners and for eulogies in this place."