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VERSE: Dt07-04a

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: To Torah Forum Volume 6 Number 24, on project
Genesis at http://www.Torah.org/. The following question was
raised: HOW DO WE KNOW THAT JEWISH STATUS FOLLOWS THE MOTHER?

We can derive this law, that jewish status follows the mother
from an alignment of 2 verses. In prohibiting intermarriage
the Bible, in 2 Biblical verses, prohibits the following
TYPES of intermarriage

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Dt07-03 your daughter their son    their daughter your son
Ex34-16                            their daughter your son
         *1

Dt07-03
Ex34-16 and their daughters will lead your children astray
        *2
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NOTES
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*1*2 Notice how Ex34-16 ONLY mentions the "their daughter
     and your son" intermarriage(even though in Dt both
     types of intermarriage are mentioned--the "their daughter
     your son" and the "your daughter their son". Also
     notice how ONLY Ex34-16 mentions WHICH non-jewish
     partner will lead your (grand)children astray

     Hence we conclude that the child follows the mother--
     so that the "their daughter and your son" type of
     intermarriage results in losing Jews from the fold


The fact that Jewish status follows the mother is mentioned
in the Rashi on Dt07-04. Rashi SEEMS to derive this from
Dt07-03. However as just shown the real derivation comes
from the alignment of Dt07-03 with Ex34-16. Such crisscrossing
in Rashi is normal. For only after seeing both verses do you
fully appreciate that one type of relationship (their daughter
your son) is being singled out. True it does say in Dt07-04
For they will make your children go astray but this sentence
could EQUALLY refer to EITHER of the two cases of intermarriage
mentioned in Dt07-03. There is no reason to connect it only
to the last case (Their daughter your son). The full simplicity
and force of the derivation comes from the COMPARISON of verses.


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