Reference for Bava Batra 218:1
ואי אתה מעביר נחלה מן האב אפילו במקום בת אם כן לא נכתוב רחמנא והעברתם
but no inheritance is passed from the father even where there is a daughter'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since the text speaks only of brothers and not of a father, why should it not be assumed that a father takes precedence over a daughter, though not over brothers? ');"><sup>1</sup></span> — If so<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That Num. XXVII, 8 is to be interpreted in the sense that only where there is a daughter does she takes precedence over the brother but where there is no daughter the inheritance is to go to the brothers. ');"><sup>2</sup></span> the Torah should not have written<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Num. XXVII, 8. ');"><sup>3</sup></span> [at all]. Then ye shall cause [his inheritance] to pass [unto his daughter].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since this law is specifically stated in the following verse (ibid 9). ');"><sup>4</sup></span>