Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 47:2

קדמו וכנסו אין מוציאין כו': תני שילא ואפי' שניהם כהנים מ"ט חלוצה דרבנן היא וספק חלוצה לא גזרו בהו רבנן

and if one is to follow him who said<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reason why none of the surviving brothers may marry one of the two widows. ');">⁴</span> that it is forbidden to annul the precept of levirate marriage,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Were one brother to be allowed to marry one of the widows he would not be able either to contract levirate marriage or to participate in halizah with the other widow (she being forbidden to him as 'his wife's sister'), should the other brother happen to die before he married that widow; and thus the entire precept of levirate marriage would in such a case be annulled. ');">⁵</span> well, it is forbidden to annul the precept of levirate marriage. Here, however, it is possible to assume that every one will happen to get his own.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Now, if the widow whom one of them bad married was really his yebamah. the other must be a total stranger to him and to the other brother; and since this might be said in the case of each pair of brothers where the marriage had already taken place. They are not, in the face of such a possibility. to be parted (Rashi). [According to the alternative interpretation (supra p. 142, n. 4.) in face of such a possibility the Rabbis saw no reason for enacting the preventive measure forbidding levirate marriage after halizah had been performed.] ');">⁶</span>

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