Reference for Yevamot 153:15

דלמא ודאי בעמוני שנשא בת ישראל קאמרת אע"ג דביאתו בעבירה בתו כשרה א"ל אין

his daughter should be ineligible.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To marry a priest. ');">⁵³</span> [But it may again be objected] their common characteristic<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That of the High Priest and the halal. ');">⁵⁶</span> is different, since it also involves an aspect of sin!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The daughter of the High Priest was born in sin, since the marriage of her parents was a forbidden one, and in the case of the daughter of the halal, the birth of the father was in sin. In the case of the Ammonite proselyte, however, neither the daughter nor her father was born in sin. How, then, could this case be inferred from the two former? And thus the question remains, what need was there for R. Johanan to teach the evident case of the daughter of an Ammonite proselyte? ');">⁵⁷</span> Did you possibly<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'Certainly' is to be deleted. V. BaH. ');">⁵⁸</span>

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