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Mishnah

Talmud for Yevamot 4:2

הַכּוֹנֵס אֶת יְבִמְתּוֹ, וְנִמְצֵאת מְעֻבֶּרֶת וְיָלָדָה, בִּזְמַן שֶׁהַוָּלָד שֶׁל קְיָמָא, יוֹצִיא וְחַיָּבִין בַּקָּרְבָּן. וְאִם אֵין הַוָּלָד שֶׁל קְיָמָא, יְקַיֵּם. סָפֵק בֶּן תִּשְׁעָה לָרִאשׁוֹן, סָפֵק בֶּן שִׁבְעָה לָאַחֲרוֹן, יוֹצִיא וְהַוָּלָד כָּשֵׁר, וְחַיָּבִין בְּאָשָׁם תָּלוּי:

If one wed his yevamah, and he found her to be pregnant, and she gave birth — if the child lived, he must send her away, and they must bring a (sin-) offering [for he cohabited with his brother's wife outside the context of mitzvah (i.e., yibum), and the child is kasher in any event.] And if the child does not live, she remains with him. If it were not clear whether the child were a nine-month birth of the first or a seven-month birth of the second, he must send her away, the child is kasher, and they must bring a suspended guilt-offering. [For in all instances where one is liable to kareth for wilful transgression, and to a sin-offering for unwitting transgression, he is liable to a suspended sin-offering for possible transgression.]

Jerusalem Talmud Ketubot

The word of Rebbi Zera255This is the Babylonian spelling of Ze‘ira. implies that a child of unknown paternity is qualified, for Rebbi Ze‘ira asked before Rebbi Yasa256It is clear that R. Ze‘ira asked before his teacher R. Yasa, not before his student’s student R. Yose.: Is it the same for families257In the Mishnah, Rabban Gamliel and R. Eliezer declare than one believes the woman if she says that her child is a Cohen’s. Mishnah Qiddušin4:1 excludes a child of unknown paternity from marrying most Jews. What is the relation of the two Mishnaiot?? He said to him, so says Rebbi Simeon ben Laqish: There, for families258If somebody looks after the purity of his blood line, he should follow the Mishnah in Qiddušin., but here for sanctified food in the country259“Sanctified food in the country” is heave. The child is empowered to eat heave; this implies that he is qualified for certain aspects of the priesthood (on the model of the local priests in Josiah’s reform, 2K. 23:9).. The word of Rebbi Samuel ben [Rav] Isaac implies that a child of unknown paternity is disqualified, for Rebbi Samuel ben Rav Isaac asked: Does this mean that a child of unknown paternity is does not exist following Rabban Gamliel and Rebbi Eliezer, only following Rebbi Joshua? He turned around and said, a child of unknown paternity is possible following Rabban Gamliel and Rebbi Eliezer, if she remains silent. And even if you say that she talks, if she said that she does not know260If the mother states that she does not know the identity of the child’s father, the child doubtless is of unknown paternity..
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