Kiddushin 136
ולדה כמותה מנלן דאמר קרא (שמות כא, ד) האשה וילדיה תהיה לאדוניה
how do we know that the issue takes her status? - Because Scripture saith, the wife and her children shall be her master's.How do we know [it of a freeborn] Gentile woman? - Scripture saith, neither shalt thou make marriages with them.How do we know that her issue bears her status? - R. Johanan said on the authority of R. Simeon b. Yohai, Because Scripture saith, For he will turn away thy son from following me:thy son byan Israelite woman is called thy son, but thy son by a heathen is not called thy son.Rabina said: This proves that thy daughter's son by a heathen is called thy son.Shall we say that Rabina holds that if a heathen or a [non-Jewish] slave cohabits with a Jewess the issue is mamzer?- [No.] Granted that he is not [regarded as] fit,he is not mamzer either, but merely stigmatised as unfit. <br> <br> Now, that [verse] refers to the seven nations I whence do we know it of other nations? - Scripture saith, 'For he will turn away [thy son],' which includes all who may turn [him] away. That is well according to R. Simeon, who interprets the reason of Scripture. But on the view of the Rabbis, what is the reason? - Scripture saith, and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, [etc.], whence it follows that before that kiddushin with her is invalid.<br> <br> We have thus found that kiddushin with her is not recognised. How do we know that her child is as herself? - Scripture saith, If there be to a man [two wives] . . . and they bare to him [children]: where we read 'if there be', we also read: 'and they bare to him'; but where we do not read: 'If there be', we do not read: 'and they bare to him'. If so, is not a [heathen] bondmaid likewise? - Yes, it is even thus. Then what is the purpose of 'the wife and her children shall be her master's'? -<br> <br> For what was taught:<br>