Commentary for Yevamot 138:3

ממזר פוסל ומאכיל כיצד בת ישראל לכהן ובת כהן לישראל וילדה הימנו בת והלכה הבת ונישאת לעבד או לעובד כוכבים וילדה הימנו בן הרי זה ממזר היתה אם אמו בת ישראל לכהן תאכל בתרומה בת כהן לישראל לא תאכל בתרומה

BUT NOT AS HER OFFSPRING.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If the slave is the offspring of a priest's daughter who was married to an Israelite now dead, he does not deprive her of the right of returning to the house of her father again to eat terumah. V. infra for further explanation. ');">⁹</span> HOW? — IF THE DAUGHTER OF AN ISRAELITE WAS MARRIED TO A PRIEST OR THE DAUGHTER OF A PRIEST WAS MARRIED TO AN ISRAELITE, AND SHE BORE A SON BY HIM, AND THE SON WENT AND VIOLATED A BONDWOMAN WHO BORE A SON BY HIM, SUCH A SON IS A SLAVE;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The child of a bondwoman, though of an Israelite father, is deemed a slave, as deduced from Ex. XXI, 4. ');">¹⁰</span> AND IF HIS FATHER'S MOTHER WAS AN ISRAELITE'S DAUGHTER WHO WAS MARRIED TO A PRIEST, SHE MAY NOT EAT <i>TERUMAH</i>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If her husband and her son (the father of the slave) are dead. Though the son of a son (like a son) confers upon his grandmother the right of eating terumah (v. infra 70a), the offspring of a union between an Israelite and a bondwoman is not regarded as the legitimate son of his father but as the child of his mother. ');">¹¹</span> BUT IF SHE WAS A PRIEST'S DAUGHTER AND MARRIED TO AN ISRAELITE SHE MAY EAT <i>TERUMAH</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The slave not being regarded as legitimate offspring (cf. supra n. 2) to deprive her of the privilege. ');">¹²</span>

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