The Gemara read to address a Hebrew slave who married the Master's Canaanite slave. The Gemara thus deduced from that the children of such a marriage were also considered Canaanite slaves and thus that their lineage flowed from their mother, not their father. The Gemara used this analysis of to explain why Mishnah Yevamot 2:5 taught that the son of a Canaanite slave mother does not impose the obligation of Levirite marriage (, "yibbum") under Further interpreting the Gemara noted that the Canaanite slave woman nonetheless had an obligation to observe certain commandments.