Midrash for Chullin 264:30
אמר רבה בר רב שילא
applies only to negative precepts, but in the case of positive precepts as, for instance, when a man is told, 'Make a sukkah',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The booth for the Feast of Tabernacles, cf. Lev. XXIII, 42.');"><sup>14</sup></span>
Sifrei Devarim
"from the people": and not from others (i.e., gentiles), and not from his fellow Cohanim.
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