Halakhah for Yevamot 152:2
[ותיפוק ליה] דהא מצרית ראשונה היא וכי תימא הנך אזלי לעלמא והני אחריני נינהו
was an Egyptian of the first generation!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who is forbidden to marry into the congregation of Israel. The third generation only is permitted. (V. Deut. XXIII. 9). ');"><sup>4</sup></span> And were you to reply that those<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The old Egyptians spoken of in the text cited (supra n. 4). ');"><sup>5</sup></span> had already departed, and these<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The Egyptians of later times. ');"><sup>6</sup></span> are others;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Other nations superseded them. Hence the prohibition does not apply to them. ');"><sup>7</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Yevamot 76b) that specifically the males of the Children of Ammon and Moav - them and their sons forever - are the ones forbidden to come into the congregation, but the females are permitted immediately when they convert. And they said in explanation of this that it is since it is the way of the man to greet, but not the females; which is to say that their hand was not in this villainy when [the men] did not greet Israel with bread and water - since it is not the way of a woman to go out. And God would not twist justice to punish the woman for the villainy of the man - God forbid, that God would [allow such] evil. And the rest of its details are elucidated in the eighth chapter of Yevamot and at the end of Kiddushin (see Tur, Even HaEzer 4).
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