Mishnayos Kiddushin Perek 4 Mishnah 7
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Rabbi Eliezer ben Ya’akov disagrees and says: If there was an Israelite who married a female convert, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood, and similarly if there was a convert who married a Jewish woman, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood. But if there was a male convert who married a female convert, his daughter is unfit to marry into the priesthood. With regard to both converts and emancipated Canaanite slaves, their daughters are unfit to marry into the priesthood even up to ten generations. This halakha applies to the offspring until his mother is born Jewish. Rabbi Yosei says: Even if there was a male convert who married a female convert, his daughter is fit to marry into the priesthood.
רַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר בֶּן יַעֲקֹב אוֹמֵר, יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁנָּשָׂא גִיּוֹרֶת, בִּתּוֹ כְשֵׁרָה לַכְּהֻנָּה. וְגֵר שֶׁנָּשָׂא בַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, בִּתּוֹ כְשֵׁרָה לַכְּהֻנָּה. אֲבָל גֵּר שֶׁנָּשָׂא גִיּוֹרֶת, בִּתּוֹ פְסוּלָה לַכְּהֻנָּה. אֶחָד גֵּר וְאֶחָד עֲבָדִים מְשֻׁחְרָרִים, אֲפִלּוּ עַד עֲשָׂרָה דוֹרוֹת, עַד שֶׁתְּהֵא אִמּוֹ מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר, אַף גֵּר שֶׁנָּשָׂא גִיּוֹרֶת, בִּתּוֹ כְשֵׁרָה לַכְּהֻנָּה:
Bartenura
ר״א בן יעקב אומר כו׳ מסקינן בגמרא שהבא לימלך מורין לו כר״א ב״י שלא ישא כהן בת גר וגיורת. אבל אם נשא, הלכה כר׳ יוסי, ואין מוציאין אותה מידו, וזרעו ממנה כשר:
ור"א בן יעקב אומר וכו' – We bring to a conclusion in the Gemara (Kiddushin 78b) that he (i.e., a Kohen) who comes to take counsel, we give him a ruling in accordance with Rabbi Eliezer ben Yaakov, that a Kohen should not marry the daughter of a male and female convert, but if he marry [the daughter of converts], the Halakha is according to Rabbi Yosi, and we do not compel him to divorce her (literally: “we do not withdraw her from his hand), and his seed from her is fit [for the priesthood].