Commentary for Yevamot 40:9

ממזרת ונתינה מאי איכא למימר גזירה במקום מצוה אטו שלא במקום מצוה

by both a positive and a negative precept, for it is written in the Scriptures, They shall be holy unto their God.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXI, 6. This text adds a positive precept to the negative one of ibid. 14, and for this reason an erusin widow is forbidden in levirate marriage to a High Priest. ');">¹⁵</span> What, however, can be said in respect of a bastard or a nethinah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Marriage with whom is forbidden by a negative precept only and yet may not be superseded by the positive precept of the levirate. ');">¹⁶</span>

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