isme_2: Bastard--Among those who were excluded from entering the congregation, even to the tenth generation, was the mamzer (A. V.) bastard, who was classed in this respect with the Ammonite and Moabite (Deut. xxiii:2). The term is not, however, applied to any illegitimate offspring, born out of wedlock, but is restricted by the Rabbins to the issue of any connection within the degrees prohibited by The Law. A mamzer, according to the Mishna (Yebamoth, iv. 13), is one, says R. Akiba, who is born of relations between whom marriage is forbidden. Simeon the Temanite says, it is everyone whose parents are liable to the punishment of "the cutting off" by the hands of Heaven; R. Joshua, everyone whose parents are liable to death by the house of judgement as, for instance, the offspring of adultry. The ancient versions (LXX., Vulg., Syr. ) add another class, the children of an harlot, and in this sense the term mamzer or manser survived in Pontifical Law (Selden, de Succ in bon. defunct., c.iii) DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE edited by William Smith, 1899

mamzerhammer: thank you, Imse

mamzerhammer: very much

isme_2: Yww

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