Commentary for Kiddushin 148:14

תנו רבנן בן תשע שנים ויום אחד גר עמוני ומואבי מצרי ואדומי כותי ונתין חלל וממזר שבאו על הכהנת ועל הלויה ועל בת ישראל [פסלוה] ר' יוסי אומר כל שזרעו פסול פוסל וכל שאין זרעו פסול אינו פוסל רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר

and the halachah is as his ruling. R'Joshua said: Whoever involves the penalty of death by the Court!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Thus this dispute is taught elsewhere (Yeb. 49a) ; why repeat it here?');">¹⁶</span> - But, said Raba, they differ in reference to an Ammonite and a Moabite convert, and this is its meaning: ALL WHO ARE FORBIDDEN TO ENTER INTO THE ASSEMBLY, - and who are they? an Ammonite and a Moabite proselyte - MAY INTERMARRY WITH EACH OTHER'If so, what is meant by R'JUDAH FORBIDS IT?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Surely these may marry a mamzer, since these do not come under the category of 'assembly'.');">¹⁷</span> - This is its meaning: Though R'JUDAH FORBIDS a proselyte [to intermarry] with a mamzereth, that is only a proselyte who is eligible to enter into the assembly, but not Ammonite and Moabite proselytes, who are not eligible to enter into the assembly. Our Rabbis taught: A male aged nine years and a day,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before that he cannot engender.');">¹⁸</span> [whether he be] an Ammonite, Moabite, Egyptian or Edomite convert, or a Cuthean, Nathin, halal or mamzer, who has intercourse with the daughter of a priest, a Levite or an Israelite, he disqualifies her.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The first, to eat terumah; the other two, to marry a priest.');">¹⁹</span> R'Jose said: He whose seed [i.e., issue] is unfit [for th priesthood] disqualifies,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The woman with whom be cohabits.');">²⁰</span> but he whose issue is not unfit does not disqualify. R'Simeon B'Gamaliel said:

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