Commentary for Yevamot 52:1

חמשה נמי למיתה דתרי לא חיישינן

the same applies to five brothers also!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Two of whom who were married to two sisters died and three survived. In this case also, if provision is to be made against the possibility of death, no levirate marriage should be allowed to any of the three survivors, since it might happen that two of the survivors would also die and the last and only surviving brother would be precluded from levirate marriage and halizah because the widows would then be his wife's sisters. ');">¹</span> -The possibility that two might die<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'for the death of two'. ');">²</span>

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