Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 52:6

נפלה חדא חלץ לה ראובן נפלה אידך חלץ לה שמעון

had become subject [to the levirs] at the same time the law would indeed have been so;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Halizah would have had to be performed by every one of them with every brother. ');">¹⁰</span> [the statement of our Mishnah, however,] was required only in the case where they become subject [to the Ievirs] one after another. When the first sister became subject to the obligation of the levirate marriage. Reuben<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the first brother. Reuben was Jacob's first son (Gen. XXIX, 32). ');">¹¹</span>

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