So, too, [in the case of] two men, [in which] this one says: “I am a Kohen,” and this one says: “I am a Kohen” —- they are not believed. [If] they testify for one another, however, these are believed.

R’ Yehudah says: We do not raise one to the Kehunah by the testimony of one witness. Said R’ Elazar: When? When there are contesters; but when there are no contesters, we raise one to the Kehunah by the testimony of one witness. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says in the name of R’ Shimon ben HaSegan: We raise one to the Kehunah by the testimony of one witness.

A woman who was imprisoned by gentiles: if because of money —- is permitted to her husband; [but if it was] for the purpose of [taking her] life, she is prohibited to her husband.  A city that was conquered by a besieging troop —- all Kohanim’s wives found therein are unfit. But if they have witnesses —- even a slave, even a maidservant —- these are believed. A person is not believed about himself. Said R’ Zechariah ben HaKatzav: [By] this Temple! Her hand did not move out of my hand from the time the gentiles entered Jerusalem until they left. They said to him: A person cannot testify for himself.

And [in] these [cases, people] are believed to testify —- when they are of age —- about what they saw when they were minors: A person is believed to say: “This is my father’s handwriting,” and “This is my teacher’s handwriting,” and “This is my brother’s handwriting”; “I remember so-and-so, that she went out with a veil and with her hair untied”; and “that so-and-so went out of school to immerse himself in order to eat terumah,” and “that he shared with us on the threshing floor”; and “This place is a beis haperas”; and “Until here we used to go on the Sabbath.” But a person is not believed to say, “So-and-so had a right of way in this place”; “So-and-so had a stopping spot and a eulogizing spot in this place.”