Commentary for Bava Batra 222:7

אלא אמר רבא אמר קרא (דברים כא, יז) לו משפט הבכורה משפט הבכורה לאיש ולא משפט הבכורה לאשה:

the text should have read, 'For he is the first-fruits of strength';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] without the suffix' would have been sufficient. ');">¹⁹</span> why his strength?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] ');">²⁰</span> Two [laws, therefore,] are to be deduced from it. But still, might it not be suggested that these words<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'His strength, and not her strength', excluding a firstborn from the right to a double portion in the mother's estate. ');">²¹</span>

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