Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Kiddushin 127:6

והרי בידו להשיאה לממזר כרבי עקיבא דאמר אין קדושין תופסין בחייבי לאוין

Daf Shevui to Kiddushin

An Israelite woman who has sex with a mamzer is disqualified from marrying a priest. So the father could give her in marriage to a mamzer and thereby disqualify her from the priesthood.
The Talmud answers that the mishnah accords with R. Akiva who holds that marriage cannot be contracted between two people prohibited by a negative commandment such as that which prohibits a mamzer from marrying an Israelite woman. Most other tannaim hold that while it is prohibited for a mamzer to marry an Israelite, should the marriage occur, it is valid.
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