Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 47:13

פריך רב אחא ואימא למעוטי בוכרא דאמא ההוא לא מצית אמרת דיבום בנחלה תלה רחמנא ונחלה מן האב ולא מן האם

Now that it has been stated that Scripture speaks of the elder brother only, why not assume that the firstborn must perform the duty of the levirate marriage and that any ordinary brother may not contract a levirate marriage at all!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Neither when there is, nor when there is not, a firstborn. ');">³⁰</span> — If so, what need<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'why to me'. ');">³¹</span> was there for the All Merciful to have excluded the 'wife of his brother who was not his contemporary'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He would in any case have been excluded since he was not the firstborn. ');">³²</span>

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