Commentary for Yevamot 55:8

תנן היתה אחת מהן אסורה על האחד איסור ערוה אסור בה ומותר באחותה והשני אסור בשתיהן ס"ד דנפלה חמותו תחלה

— If that were the case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the prohibition in our Mishnah to marry the two widowed sisters is entirely due to the fact that it is not known which of them was the first to become a widow and which was second; and that, had the fact been known, the first would have been permitted to be taken in the levirate marriage. ');">¹⁹</span> how could it have been stated,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., '(is it) that why it was stated'! ');">²⁰</span> EVEN IF THEY HAD ALREADY MARRIED THEM THEY MUST DISMISS THEM! In the case of the first,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the levir who married first, Cf. BaH a.l. Cur. edd. read, [H] for [H] ');">²¹</span>

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