Mesorat%20hashas for Yevamot 155:10

ואי כתב רחמנא גבי ממזר משום דאין ראוי לבא בקהל לעולם אבל הכא אימא לא צריכא

might have been assumed to apply to this case only], because the child descended from a tainted origin.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'drop'. One of his parents at least was ineligible. ');">³³</span> but not to a bastard, since he is descended from an untainted origin.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His father and mother may have been proper Israelites. ');">³⁴</span> And had the All Merciful written the expression in respect of the bastard, [the restriction<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That the ineligibility of any one of the parents causes the ineligibility of the child. Cf. supra note 2. ');">³²</span> might have been presumed to apply to him only]. because he is for all time unfit to enter into the assembly, but not in this case.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since an Egyptian is permitted after the third generation. ');">³⁵</span>

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