Reference for Bava Batra 238:6

אלא סרס המקרא ודרשהו דברי רבי יאשיה אבא חנן אמר משום רבי אליעזר בבית המדרש היו יושבין והלכו ועמדו להן לפני כולן

<i>And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XXVII, 2. ');">¹³</span> Is it possible that they stood before Moses etc. and they did not say anything to them [so that] they [had] to stand before the princes and all the congregation? But, the verse is to be turned about and expounded;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' They first came to the congregation, then to the princes and Eleazar, and finally to Moses, ');">¹⁴</span> Is these are the words of R. Josiah. Abba Hanan said in the name of R. Eliezer: They<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Moses, Eleazar and all the rest. ');">¹⁵</span>

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