Commentary for Yevamot 155:1

מצרי שני במאי יטהר דלמא דאי עבר ונסיב דאי לא כתיב קרא

how<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If Egyptian women were not included in the prohibition to enter the assembly. ');">¹</span> could an Egyptian of the second generation ever attain purity!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Entry into the assembly. Egyptian women proselytes being regarded, like Israelites, as an assembly (v. supra n. 12), no Egyptian male proselyte of the first or second generations would ever be permitted to marry them. How then, since he can marry neither a woman of Israel nor a proselyte of his own people, would he ever produce a third generation (v. Deut. XXIII, 9) that would be fit to enter the assembly? ');">²</span> But is not this possible when he transgressed and did marry one?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A woman in Israel or an Egyptian woman proselyte. ');">³</span> — Scripture<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In permitting the third generation (v. Deut. XXIII, 9). ');">⁴</span>

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