Mesorat%20hashas for Arakhin 50:15

משום דעבד עברי מהאי פירכא נמי הוא דנפקא ליה

But infer it from the fact that here [in the son's case] there are two points [in favour], whereas there [in the brother's case] there is only one! - [The preference for a son in the case of] a Hebrew slave is similarly inferred from the same refutation: Is there any levirate duty in any other condition but where there be no son?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The preference for a son in the case of a Hebrew slave is not based on the Biblical text, but is inferred from this very argument, v. Kid. 17b; therefore in reality there is but one point in the son's favour, so that the balance between brother and son is restored, each of them having but one point in his favour.');">⁷</span>

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