Commentary for Bava Batra 223:2

מאי ואומר וכי תימא בסבת הבן קא קפיד קרא אבל בעל לא ירית תא שמע ולא תסוב נחלה לבני ישראל ממטה למטה

[For] what [purpose is] 'furthermore it is said' [required]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Supra 111b. Why five Biblical quotations in addition to the first one from Num. XXXVI, 8? ');">³</span> — In case it be said<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and if you will say'. ');">⁴</span> that Scripture is only concerned for a transfer [through] the son,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the prohibition against marrying into another tribe was solely due to the fact that the son who is heir to his mother would cause the transfer of the estate from his mother's tribe to that of his. ');">⁵</span>

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