Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 281:9

אמר רב אשי אמריתה לשמעתא קמיה דרב כהנא במסרס דאמר זכר תחלה מאתים נקבה אחריו ולא כלום נקבה תחלה מנה זכר אחריה מנה וילדה זכר ונקבה ולא ידעינן הי מינייהו נפק ברישא זכר שקיל מנה ממה נפשך אידך מנה הוה ממון המוטל בספק וחולקין

before R. Kahana, [as dealing] with [the case of] one who inverted the order [of his first instruction] by making a statement like the following:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'when he said'. ');">³¹</span> '[If] a male [be born] first, [he shall receive] two hundred <i>zuz</i>,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' l.e., eight gold denarii. ');">³²</span> and the] female [born] after him [shall receive] nothing: [if a] female [be born] first, [she shall receive] a <i>maneh</i>, [and the] male [born] after her [shall receive] a <i>maneh</i>'; and she gave birth to [both] a male and a female, and it is not known which of them was born<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'came out'. ');">³³</span> first. The male does, [consequently]. receive a <i>maneh</i> [which is] in any case [due to him].]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If he was born first, the maneh is certainly due to him, since in such a case, his father had really allotted him two hundred zuz. But even if he was born second he is still entitled by virtue of the definite instructions of his father, to the one maneh ');">³⁴</span>

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