Reference: Bastards
Fausets
mamzer. Forbidden to enter the Lord's congregation to the tenth generation, i.e. forever (De 23:2-3). Yet Jephthah, son of a strange woman, and therefore driven out by the legitimate children, was called to be a judge to Israel (Jg 11:1-2). The Talmud and the rabbis are probably therefore right in explaining mamzer, not illegitimate children in general, but those begotten in incest or adultery: from mazar, "to be corrupt." The only other occurrence of mamzer is Zec 9:6; "a bastard (a vile alien) shall dwell in Ashdod." Arabs about that time occupied much of S. Palestine, and the prophet foretells Ashdod will be ruled by them. Bastards were not excluded from public worship ordinarily. They had no claim to the paternal inheritance, or to the standing privileges and filial discipline of children (Heb 12:7).
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One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.
One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation. No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father. And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.
And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?