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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 2 - The 365 Prohibitions of the Tora
52 - INTERMARRTYING WITH THE HERETICS
Deuteronomy 7:3 -- “Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.”
“If a man cohabits with a heathen woman, he is punished by zealots.”* The status of children of a mixed marriage, according to Jewish law, is determined exclusively by the faith of the mother. Thus if the mother is Jewish and the father non-Jewish, the children are considered in every respect Jewish, and vice versa.**
* Sanh. 81b (Sonc. ed. p. 542)
** Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha-Ezer IV, 5, 19, Commentaries
** Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha-Ezer IV, 5, 19, Commentaries