## Malbim Ayelet HaShachar Klal 39

###### Malbim Ayelet HaShachar 39:1
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ולפעמים בא המקור לפני הפעל להראות החיוב במאמר; שיש לטעות שהוא רשות. כמו בציוי הנגבל נגד אזהרה (כמו שיתבאר לקמן כלל רכח, שמיני ס' נז)

**Ayelet Hashachar, translated by Betzalel Avraham Feinstein, 2021:**
And sometimes an infinitive comes before a verb to indicate an obligation in a statement, that it is a mistake to think that it only means it is optional. For instance, when imperatives are restricted against a warning (as will be explained later in Rule 228).

*Leviticus 6:23 says,*וכל חטאת אשר יובא מדמה אל אהל מועד לכפר בקדש לא תאכל באש תשרף*(And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire).*

*And Leviticus 10:18 says,*הן לא הובא את דמה אל הקדש פנימה אכול תאכלו אתה בקדש כאשר צויתי*(Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within; you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded).*

*This is an example of an imperative that is restricted against a warning. The warning*לא תאכל*, in Leviticus 6:23, is not to eat the sin offering when the blood of it was brought into the holy place. The imperative*אכול תאכלו*, in Leviticus 10:18, is that one must eat the sin offering when the blood of it was not brought into the holy place⁸⁷.*

footnotes:
⁸⁷ Malbim, HaTorah v’HaMitzvah Shemini 57.