Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 37:13

אמר רבא שניה שבזוג זה והשניה שבזוג זה

-Raba replied: The second of the one pair and the second of the other pair.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Both' used by R. Simeon refers to the second of each pair. Raba assumed that the two brothers had married two sisters and also a mother and her daughter. One of the first is taken in levirate marriage and the others are thereby exempt either as 'forbidden relatives' or 'rivals'. ');">³⁴</span> Raba, however, was mistaken [in the interpretation] of the four pairs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Enumerated in the cited Mishnah, assuming as he did that it meant marriage by the. two brothers of more than one pair (v. previous note). ');">³⁵</span> For, in the first instance, we have twice the word 'or',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Or' occurs after the enumeration of each pair. ');">³⁶</span>

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