Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 238:13

איני והא אמר רב חסדא ניסת פחותה מבת עשרים יולדת עד ששים, בת עשרים יולדת עד ארבעים, בת ארבעים שוב אינה יולדת אלא מתוך שצדקניות הן נעשה להן נס כיוכבד דכתיב (שמות ב, א) וילך איש מבית לוי ויקח את בת לוי

They [must] have been exegetes, for they said: 'If he had a son we would not have spoken'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This plea shows that they knew the exposition of Num. XXVII, 8, according to which a daughter has no claim where there is a son. Cf. supra 110a. ');">³¹</span> But was it not taught: 'a daughter'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Viz some versions read that they said, 'If he had a daughter'. ');">³²</span> — R. Jeremiah said: Delete, 'daughter', from here.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The word, 'daughter', in that Baraitha is an error. ');">³³</span> Abaye said: [The explanation is that they said]: 'Even if a son [of his] had a daughter. we would not have spoken'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Knowing that a son's daughter has preference over the daughter of the decreased', v. supra 115b. ');">³⁴</span> They were virtuous, since they were married to such men only as were worthy of them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra p. 493, n. 2. ');">³⁵</span> R. Eliezer b. Jacob taught: Even the youngest among them was not married under forty years of age.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Waiving for a worthy husband. ');">³⁶</span> But can this he so? Surely, R. Hisda said: [One who] marries under twenty years of age beget till sixty; [at] twenty, begins till forty. [at] forty, does not beget any more!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is it, then, possible that virtuous women like the daughters of Zelophehad would marry so late in life as to he unable to have any issue? ');">³⁷</span> — Since, however, they were virtuous, a miracle happened in their case<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'to them'. ');">³⁸</span> as [in that of] Jochebed.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The mother of Moses. ');">³⁹</span> As It is written, And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex II, I. ');">⁴⁰</span>

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