Editing Gentile (section)

=== Later sages ===
[[Rav Ashi]] believed that a Jew who sells a gentile property adjacent to a Jewish property should be [[Herem (censure)|excommunicated]]. The violation of Jewish women by gentile men was so frequent{{cn|date=April 2024}} that the rabbis declared that a woman raped by a gentile should not be divorced from her husband, as Torah says: "The Torah outlawed the issue of a gentile as that of a beast."<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com"/> A gentile midwife was not to be employed for fear of the poisoning of the baby. The gentiles should be dealt with caution in cases of using them as witness in a criminal or civil suit. The gentile does not honor his promises like that of a Jew. The laws of the Torah were not to be revealed to the gentiles, for the knowledge of these laws might give gentiles an advantage in dealing with Jews. [[Shimon ben Lakish]] wrote that "A gentile who observes Sabbath deserves death".<ref name="jewishencyclopedia.com"/>