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 # the second ... the third
 
-These numbers refer to each of the brothers and can be expressed as such. Alternate translation: "the second brother ... the third brother" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-ellipsis]])
-
-# the second took her
-
-"the second married her." Here marrying a woman is spoken of as "taking" her.
-
-# the third in the same way
-
-"the third brother married her as his other bothers had done, and he also died leaving no children" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+"the second brother ... the third brother"