In these passages the strict interpretation of the Pentateuchal texts, as restricted to Israel, prevails, and in a similar spirit, in the order of Precedence as laid down in Hor. iii. 8, only the manumitted slave is assigned inferior rank to the proselyte, the bastard and the "natin" taking precedence over him. On the other hand, it should not be overlooked that it was deemed sinful to remind a proselyte of his ancestors or to speak in disrespectful terms of them and their life.<ref>B. M. iv. 10</ref>
==Sabian View==
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Catholics ... are not identified with Gentiles, but regarded as "Proselytes of the gates"<ref>Isaac b. Sheshet, Responsa, No. 119) —Jewish Encyclopaedia 1901-1906</ref> under Intermarriage. NB, According to the Jewish assembly's answer to Napoleon's third question, Israelites are not forbidden from marrying any other than the 7 Canaanite nations, Lotite men, and Egyptians to the third generation, but Talmudists do not marry non-Talmudists because of the need for Kiduschim.
