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Sefer HaMitzvot, Positive Commandments

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היא שצווה כהן גדול שישא בתולה, והוא אמרו והוא אשה בבתוליה יקח. ובבאור אמרו (יבמות מ"ט) עושה היה רבי עקיבא ממזר אפילו מחייבי עשה, ובאור זה כשהיה כהן גדול בא על בלתי בתולה שהיא אסורה לו בעשה, שהשורש הזה אצלנו לאו הבא מכלל עשה עשה. והנה כבר התבארו משפטי מצוה זו ביבמות וקידושין וכתובות. (אמור, קדושה הלכות אסורי ביאה פי"ז):

Sefaria Edition 2021, Translated by Rabbi Francis Nataf

That is that He commanded a high priest to marry a virgin. And that is His saying, "He shall marry a woman who is a virgin." And they said in the explanation (Ketuvot 30a), "Rabbi Akiva would designate as a mamzer even [a child resulting from the union of] those prohibited by a positive commandment." And the explanation of this is that it is when a high priest would have sexual intercourse with someone who is not a virgin - about which he is prohibited by a positive commandment. For the principle with us is that a negative commandment that is derived from a positive commandment is [also] a positive commandment. And behold the regulations of this commandment have already been explained in Yevamot, in Kiddushin and in Ketuvot. (See Parashat Emor; Mishneh Torah, Forbidden Intercourse 17.)