Commentary for Bava Batra 220:4
ודלמא בנות צלפחד הוא דקאמרן הכי ניתנה תורה ונתחדשה הלכה אלא מחוורתא כדשנין מעיקרא
is deduced from, And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXXVI, 8. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> R. Aha b. Jacob said: [The law of a son's precedence over a daughter may he inferred] from here: Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he had no son?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXVII, 4. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
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