(续上)……出自同一家,而经文「建立家室」表明一家只可有一位转房。可他又不许转一位而使另一位不经任何程序豁免,因为或许转房之系并不实在,两位便出自两家。可见即使下了转房聘言,拉比西缅 仍不能确定转房之系是否实在。
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……同一家,即同一位丈夫;大家都同意,每一家只可有一位妻子转房,因为经上说:「为他兄弟建立家室」,这解释为在世的兄弟只可与亡兄的一位妻子转房,不可与两位。
from a single household, i.e., husband, and everyone agrees that only one wife from each household may be taken in levirate marriage, as the verse states: “To build his brother’s house,” which is interpreted to mean that the remaining brother may perform levirate marriage with only one wife of his late brother and not with two.
本句续上一面末句。经文见申命记 25:9;和合本原句作「凡不为……建立家室的,都要这样待他」,所省处为叠用的「哥」字,因避叠字改照英译 his brother 写作「他兄弟」。
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他却不可与一位转房、而让另一位不经任何程序就得豁免,因为或许转房之系不够实在,不足以使头一个兄弟的遗孀对第二个兄弟而言如同已婚妇人。
To take one in levirate marriage and exempt the other without any procedure, he may not do, as perhaps the levirate bond is not substantial enough to make the first brother’s widow like a married woman to the second brother.
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那样,这位丈夫先死的妇人仍是头一个兄弟的妻子,第二位妇人则是第二个兄弟的妻子。
In that case this woman whose husband died first remains the wife of the first brother, and the second woman is the wife of the second brother.
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这样就有两项各自独立的转房义务,一位不能使另一位豁免;她们是来自两家的两位 叔娶之妇 。
Then there would be two separate levirate obligations, and one could not exempt the other; they would be two yevamot who come from two households.
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所以看来,即使已下了转房聘言,拉比西缅 仍不能确定转房之系是否实在。
Therefore, apparently even when levirate betrothal was performed Rabbi Shimon is uncertain whether or not the levirate bond is substantial.