Mesorat%20hashas for Bekhorot 86:5
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- The difference is as regards the transgression of a positive precept.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A priest 'who is not like the seed of Aaron', if he performed his duties in the Temple, would be guilty of breaking a positive precept, according to the following reasoning: 'One who is like the seed of Aaron' may officiate in the Temple, but not one who is not like the seed of Aaron. Now this negative conclusion is merely an inference and not an explicit negative precept, and therefore it only possesses the force of a positive precept.');"><sup>3</sup></span>
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