Quoting%20commentary for Yevamot 135:13

אי מההיא הוה אמינא לאו הבא מכלל עשה עשה כתב רחמנא האי ללאו [לאו] (ויקרא כב, י) מוכל זר לא יאכל קדש נפקא

may be deduced from the text, And is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 13. ');">³⁷</span> Since the All Merciful ordained, And is returned unto her father's house&nbsp;… she may eat,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 13. ');">³⁷</span> it follows that prior to that<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Before she returned to her father's house, i.e., while she was still a married woman, 'living with her husband. ');">³⁸</span> she was not permitted to eat. But if [deduction were to be made] from that text,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 13. ');">³⁷</span> [it may be objected] one might have assumed that as a negative precept<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not to eat terumah. ');">³⁹</span> which is derived from a positive one<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'When she returned to her father's house she may eat terumah'. ');">⁴⁰</span> it has only the force of a positive precept,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which is not punishable by flogging. ');">⁴¹</span> hence did the All Merciful write the other text<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 12. ');">⁴²</span> to [indicate that it is] a negative precept! — [That it is] a negative precept may be deduced from, There shall no strange man<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Non-priest, an Israelite. V. supra p. 457. n. 11. ');">⁴³</span> eat<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is now presumed that as the woman married a stranger she assumes his status and is consequently, like her husband, forbidden to eat terumah. ');">⁴⁴</span> of the holy things.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XXII, 10. ');">⁴⁵</span>

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