Midrash for Bava Batra 245:12
אמשול לך משל למה הדבר דומה לבעל הבית שגדל יתום בתוך ביתו לימים העשיר אותו יתום ואמר אהניהו לבעל הבית מנכסי א"ל ואי לאו דחטא ראובן לא מהני ליה ליוסף ולא מדעם
may not be deduced, Come and hear [the verse], But the birthright was Joseph's.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In this verse, as in Deut. XXI, 17, the noun Bekorah, without a suffix, is used. ');"><sup>21</sup></span> And in case you should say whence [is it proved] that Joseph himself [received] twice as much as [any] one [of the others], — Come and hear [the verse], Moreover I have given thee one portion above thy brethren.
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