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Comprehensive list of the laws of the Mitzvot of Judaism

 

248 Positive Mitzvot (רמ״ח מצוות עשה)

1: Believing in God

2: Unity of God

3: Loving God

4: Fearing God

5: Worshiping God

6: Cleaving to God

7: Taking an oath by God's Name

8: Walking in God's ways

9: Sanctifying God's Name

10: Reading the Shema twice daily

11: Studying and teaching Torah

12: Wearing Tefillin of the head

13: Wearing Tefillin of the hand

14: To make Tzitzit

15: To affix a Mezuzah

16: Hakhel during Sukkot

17: A king should write a Torah

18: Everyone should write a Torah

19: Grace after meals

20: Building a Sanctuary for God

21: Revering the Beit Hamikdash

22: Guarding the Mikdash

23: Levitical services in the Mikdash

24: Ablutions of the Kohanim

25: Kindling the lamps by the Kohanim

26: Kohanim blessing Israel

27: The Showbread

28: Burning the Incense

29: The perpetual fire on the Altar

30: Removing the ashes from the Altar

31: Removing tamei persons from the camp

32: Honoring the Kohanim

33: The Priestly garments

34: Kohanim bearing the Ark on their shoulders

35: The oil of the Anointment

36: Kohanim ministering in watches

37: Kohanim defiling themselves for deceased relatives

38: Kohen Gadol should only marry a virgin

39: Daily Burnt Offerings

40: Kohen Gadol's daily Meal Offering

41: The Shabbat Additional Offering

42: The New Moon Additional Offering

43: The Pesach Additional Offering

44: The Meal Offering of the Omer

45: The Shavuot Additional Offering

46: Bringing Two Loaves on Shavuot

47: The Rosh Hashana Additional Offering

48: The Yom Kippur Additional Offering

49: The Service of Yom Kippur

50: The Sukkot Offering

51: The Shemini Atzeret Additional Offering

52: The three annual pilgrimages

53: Appearing before Hashem during the Festivals

54: Rejoicing on the Festivals

55: Slaughtering the Pesach Offering

56: Eating the Pesach Offering

57: Slaughtering the Pesach Sheini Offering

58: Eating the Pesach Sheini Offering

59: Blowing the trumpets in the Sanctuary

60: Minimum age of cattle to be offered

61: Offering only unblemished sacrifices

62: Bringing salt with every offering

63: The Burnt-Offering

64: The Sin-Offering

65: The Guilt-Offering

66: The Peace-Offering

67: The Meal-Offering

68: Offerings of a Court that has erred

69: The Fixed Sin-Offering

70: The Suspensive Guilt-Offering

71: The Unconditional Guilt-Offering

72: The Offering of a Higher or Lower Value

73: Making confession

74: Offering brought by a zav (man with a discharge)

75: Offering brought by a zavah (woman with a discharge)

76: Offering of a woman after childbirth

77: Offering brought by a leper

78: Tithe of Cattle

79: Sanctifying the First-born

80: Redeeming the First-born

81: Redeeming the firstling of a donkey

82: Breaking the neck of the firstling of a donkey

83: Bringing due offerings on the first festival

84: All offerings to be brought to the Sanctuary

85: Bring all offerings due from outside Eretz Yisrael to Sanctuary

86: Redeeming blemished offerings

87: Holiness of substituted offerings

88: Kohanim eat the residue of the Meal Offerings

89: Kohanim eat the meat of the Consecrated Offerings

90: To burn Consecrated Offerings that have become tamei

91: To burn the remnant of the Consecrated Offerings

92: The Nazir letting his hair grow

93: Nazirite obligations on completion of vow

94: All oral submissions to be fulfilled

95: Revocation of vows

96: Defilement through carcasses of animals

97: Defilement through carcasses of eight creeping creatures

98: Defilement of food and drink

99: Tumah of a menstruant

100: Tumah of a woman after childbirth

101: Tumah of a leper

102: Garments contaminated by leprosy

103: A leprous house

104: Tumah of a zav (man with a discharge)

105: Tumah of semen

106: Tumah of a zavah (woman with a discharge)

107: Tumah of a corpse

108: The law of the water of sprinkling

109: Immersing in a mikveh

110: Cleansing from Leprosy

111: A leper must shave his head

112: The leper must be made distinguishable

113: Ashes of the Red Heifer

114: Valuation of a person

115: Valuation of beasts

116: Valuation of houses

117: Valuation of fields

118: Restitution for Sacrilege

119: The fruits of the fourth-year planting

120: To leave the corners (peah) for the poor

121: To leave gleanings for the poor

122: To leave the forgotten sheaf for the poor

123: To leave defective grape clusters for the poor

124: To leave grape gleanings for the poor

125: To bring First-fruits to the Sanctuary

126: To set aside the great Heave-offering

127: To set aside the first tithe

128: To set aside the second tithe

129: The Levites' tithe for the Kohanim

130: To set aside the poor-man's tithe in the third and sixth year

131: The avowal of the tithe

132: Recital on bringing the First-fruits

133: To set aside the Challah for the Kohen

134: Renouncing as ownerless produce of the Sabbatical year

135: Resting the land on the Sabbatical year

136: Sanctifying the Jubilee year

137: Blowing the Shofar in the Jubilee year

138: Reversion of the land in the Jubilee year

139: Redemption of property in a walled city

140: Counting the years till the Jubilee year

141: Cancelling monetary claims in the Sabbatical year

142: Exacting debts from idolators

143: The Kohen's due in the slaughter of every clean animal

144: The first of the fleece to be given to the Kohen

145: Devoted thing to God and the Kohen

146: Slaughtering animals before eating them

147: Covering the blood of slain birds and animals

148: Releasing the mother before taking the nest

149: Searching for the prescribed signs in cattle and animals

150: Searching for the prescribed signs in birds

151: Searching for the prescribed signs in grasshoppers

152: Searching for the prescribed signs in fishes

153: Determining the New Moon

154: Resting on Shabbat

155: proclaiming the sanctity of Shabbat

156: Removal of chometz on Pesach

157: Recounting Exodus from Egypt on first night of Pesach

158: Eating Matzah on the first night of Pesach

159: Resting on the first day of Pesach

160: Resting on the seventh day of Pesach

161: Counting the Omer

162: Resting on Shavuos

163: Resting on Rosh Hashana

164: Fasting on Yom Kippur

165: Resting on Yom Kippur

166: Resting on the first day of Sukkot

167: Resting on Shemini Atzeret

168: Dwelling in a Sukkah for seven days

169: Taking a Lulav on Sukkot

170: Hearing a Shofar on Rosh Hashana

171: Giving half a shekel annually

172: Heeding the Prophets

173: Appointing a King

174: Obeying the Great Court

175: Abiding by a majority decision

176: Appointing Judges and Officers of the Court

177: Treating litigants equally before the law

178: Testifying in Court

179: Inquiring into the testimony of witnesses

180: Condemning witnesses who testify falsely

181: Eglah Arufah

182: Establishing Six Cities of Refuge

183: Assigning cities to the Levi'im

184: Building fences on roof

184: Removing sources of danger from our dwellings

185: Destroying all idol-worship

186: The law of the apostate city

187: The law of the Seven Nations

188: The extinction of the seed of Amalek

189: Remembering the nefarious deeds of Amalek

190: The law of the non-obligatory war

191: Appointomg a Kohen to speak to the people going to war

191: Sending back any man unfit for battle

192: Preparing a place beyond the camp

193: Including a digging tool among war implements

194: A robber to restore the stolen article

195: To give charity

196: Lavishing gifts on a Hebrew bondman on his freedom

197: Lending money to the poor

198: Lending money to the heathen with interest

199: Restoring a pledge to a needy owner

200: Paying wages on time

201: An employee is allowed to eat the produce he's working in

202: Unloading a tired animal

203: Assisting the owner in loading his burden

204: Returning lost property to its owner

205: Rebuking the sinner

206: Loving our Fellow Jew

207: Loving the convert

208: The law of weights and measures

209: Honoring scholars

210: Honoring parents

211: Fearing parents

212: Being fruitful and multiplying

213: The law of marriage

214: Bridegroom devotes himself to his wife for one year

215: Circumcising one's son

216: Law of the Levirite Marriage

217: Law of Chalitzah

218: A violator must marry the maiden he has violated

219: The law of the defamer of his bride

220: The law of the seducer

221: The law of the captive woman

222: The law of divorce

223: The law of a suspected adultress

224: Whipping transgressors of certain commandments

225: The law of unintentional manslaughter

226: Beheading transgressors of certain commandments

227: Strangling transgressors of certain commandments

228: Burning transgressors of certain commandments

229: Stoning transgressors of certain commandments

230: Hanging after execution, transgressors of certain commandments

231: Burial on the day of execution

232: The law of the Hebrew bondman

233: Hebrew bondmaid to be married by her master or his son

234: Redemption of a Hebrew bondmaid

235: The law of a Canaanite bondman

236: Penalty of inflicting injury

237: The law of injuries caused by an ox

238: The law of injuries caused by an pit

239: The law of theft

240: The law of damage caused by a beast

241: The law of damage caused by a fire

242: The law of an unpaid bailee

243: The law of a paid bailee

244: The law of a borrower

245: The law of buying and selling

246: The law of litigants

247: Saving the life of the pursued

248: The law of inheritance



365 Negative Mitzvot (שס״ה מצוות לא תעשה)

1: Not believing in any other God

2: Not to make images for the purpose of worship

3: Not to make an idol (even for others) to worship

4: Not to make figures of human beings

5: Not to bow down to an idol

6: Not to worship idols

7: Not to hand over any children to Molech

8: Not to practice sorcery of the ov

9: Not to practice sorcery of the yidoni

10: Not to study idolatrous practices

11: Not to erect a pillar which people will assemble to honor

12: Not to make figured stones on which to prostrate ourselves

13: Not to plant trees in the Sanctuary

14: Not to swear by an idol

15: Not to divert people to idolatry

16: Not to try to persuade an Israelite to worship idols

17: Not to love someone who seeks to mislead you to idols

18: Not to relax one's aversion to the misleader

19: Not to save the life of a misleader

20: Not to plead for the misleader

21: Not to oppress evidence unfavorable to the misleader

22: No benefit from ornaments which have adorned an idol

23: Not rebuilding an apostate city

24: Not deriving benefit from property of an apostate city

25: Not increasing wealth from anything connected with idolatry

26: Not prophesying in the name of an idol

27: Not prophesying falsely

28: Not to listen to the prophesy made in the name of an idol

29: Not fearing or refraining from killing a false prophet

30: Not adopting the habits and customs of unbelievers

31: Not practicing divination

32: Not regulating one's conduct by the stars

33: Not practicing the art of the soothsayer

34: Not practicing sorcery

35: Not practicing the art of the charmer

36: Not consulting a necromancer who uses the ov

37: Not consulting a sorcerer who uses the yidoa

38: Not to seek information from the dead

39: Women not to wear men's clothes or adornments

40: Men not wearing women's clothes or adornments

41: Not imprinting any marks on our bodies

42: Not wearing Shaatnez (mixture of wool and linen)

43: Not shaving the temples of the head

44: Not shaving the beard

45: Not making cuttings in our flesh

46: Not settling in the land of Egypt

47: Not to follow one's heart or eyes

48: Not to make a covenant with the Seven Nations of Canaan

49: Not to spare the life of the Seven Nations

50: Not to show mercy to idolaters

51: Not to allow idolaters to settle in our land

52: Not to intermarry with a heretic

53: Not to intermarry with a male from Ammon or Moav

54: Not to exclude the descendants of Esav

55: Not to exclude the descendants of Egyptians

56: Not offering peace to Ammon and Moav

57: Not destroying fruit trees in time of siege

58: Not fearing heretics in time of war

59: Not forgetting what Amalek did to us

60: Not blaspheming the Great Name

61: Not violating a shvuat bittui (oath of utterance)

62: Not swearing a shvuat shav (vain oath)

63: Not profaning the Name of God

64: Not testing His promises and warnings

65: Not to break down houses of worship or to destroy holy books

66: Not leaving the body of an executed criminal hanging overnight

67: Not to interrupt the watch over the Sanctuary

68: Kohen Gadol may not enter Sanctuary at any but prescribed times

69: Kohen with blemish not to enter Sanctuary from Altar inwards

70: Kohen with a blemish not to minister in the Sanctuary

71: Kohen with a temporary blemish not to minister in Sanctuary

72: Levites and Kohanim not perform each other's allotted services

73: Not to be intoxicated when entering Sanctuary

73: Not to be intoxicated when giving a decision on Torah law

74: Zar (non-kohen) not to minister in Sanctuary

75: Tamei Kohen not to minister in Sanctuary

76: Kohen who is tevul yom, not to minister in Sanctuary

77: Tamei person not to enter any part of Sanctuary

78: Tamei person not to enter camp of Levites

79: Not to build an Altar of stones which were touched by iron

80: Not to ascend the Altar by steps

81: Not to extinguish the Altar fire

82: Not to offer any sacrifice whatever on the Golden Altar

83: Not to make oil like the Oil of Anointment

84: Not anoint anyone with special oil except Kohen Gadol and King

85: Not to make incense like used in Sanctuary

86: Not to remove the staves from their rings in the Ark

87: Not to remove the Breastplate from the Ephod

88: Not to tear the edge of the Kohen Gadol's robe

89: Not to offer sacrifices outside the Sanctuary Court

90: Not to slaughter holy offerings outside the Sanctuary Court

91: Not to dedicate a blemished animal to be offered on the Altar

92: Not to slaughter a blemished animal as a korban

93: Not to dash the blood of a blemished beast on the the Altar

94: Not to burn the sacrificial portions of blemished beast on Altar

95: Not to sacrifice a beast with a temporary blemish

96: Not to offer a blemished sacrifice of a gentile

97: Not to cause an offering to become blemished

98: Not to offer leaven or honey upon the Altar

99: Not to offer a sacrifice without salt

100: Not to offer on Altar the "hire of a harlot" or "price of a dog"

101: Not to slaughter the mother and her young on the same day

102: Not to put olive oil on the meal-offering of a sinner

103: Not to put frankincense the meal-offering of a sinner

104: Not mingle olive oil with meal-offering of suspected adulteress

105: Not put frankincense on meal-offering of suspected adulteress

106: Not to change a beast that has been consecrated as an offering

107: Not to change one's holy offering for another

108: Not to redeem the firstling (of a clean beast)

109: Not to sell the tithe of cattle

110: Not to sell devoted property

111: Not to redeem devoted land without specific statement of purpose

112: Not to sever the head of the bird of Sin-offering during melikah

113: Not to do any work with a dedicated beast

114: Not to shear a dedicated beast

115: Not slaughter the Korban Pesach while chometz in our possession

116: Not leave any sacrificial portions of Korban Pesach overnight

117: Not allow meat of Korban Pesach to remain till morning

118: Not allow meat of 14 Nissan Festival Offering remain till day 3

119: Not allow meat of Pesach Sheini offering to remain till morning

120: Not allow meat of thanksgiving offering to remain till morning

121: Not to break any bones of Pesach offering

122: Not to break any bones of Pesach Sheini offering

123: Not to remove Pesach offering from where it is eaten

124: Not to bake the residue of a meal offering with leaven

125: Not to eat the Pesach offering boiled or raw

126: Not to allow a ger toshav to eat the Pesach offering

127: An uncircumcised person may not eat the Pesach offering

128: Not to allow an apostate Israelite to eat the Pesach offering

129: Tamei person may not eat hallowed food

130: Not to eat meat of consecrated offerings which have become tamei

131: Not eating notar (beyond allotted time)

132: Not eating piggul (improper intentions)

133: A zar may not eat terumah

134: A Kohen's tenant or hired servant may not eat terumah

135: An uncircumcised Kohen may not eat terumah

136: Tamei Kohen may not eat terumah

137: A chalalah may not eat holy food

138: Not to eat the meal-offering of a Kohen

139: Not eat Sin-offering meat whose blood was brought into Sanctuary

140: Not to eat the invalidated consecrated offerings

141: Not to eat unredeemed 2nd tithe of corn outside Yerushalayim

142: Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of wine outside Yerushalayim

143: Not consuming unredeemed 2nd tithe of oil outside Yerushalayim

144: Not eating an unblemished firstling outside Yerushalayim

145: Not eat sin-offering and guilt-offering outside Sanctuary court

146: Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering

147: Not eat lesser holy offerings before blood dashed on Altar

148: A zar not to eat the most holy offerings

149: Kohen not to eat first fruits outside Yerushalayim

150: Not eating an unredeemed tamei 2nd tithe, even in Yerushalayim

151: Not eating the 2nd tithe in mourning

152: Not spend 2nd tithe redemption money, except on food and drink

153: Not eating tevel (produce heave-offering and tithes not taken)

154: Not altering the prescribed order of harvest tithing

155: Not to delay payment of vows

156: Not to appear in Sanctuary on festival without sacrifice

157: Not to infringe on any oral obligation, even if without an oath

158: Kohen may not marry a zonah

159: Kohen may not marry a chalalah

160: Kohen may not marry a divorcee

161: Kohen Gadol may not marry a widow

162: Kohen Gadol may not have relations with a widow

163: Kohen with disheveled hair may not enter the Sanctuary

164: Kohen wearing rent garments may not enter Sanctuary

165: Ministering Kohanim may not leave the Sanctuary

166: Regular Kohen may not defile himself for dead (with exceptions)

167: Kohen Gadol may not be under one roof with dead body

168: Kohen Gadol may not defile himself for any dead person

169: Levites may not take a share of the land

170: Levites may not share in the spoil on conquest of the Land

171: Not to tear out hair for the dead

172: Not to eat any unclean animal

173: Not to eat any unclean fish

174: Not to eat any unclean fowl

175: Not to eat any swarming winged insect

176: Not to eat anything which swarms on the earth

177: Not to eat any creeping thing that breeds in decayed matter

178: Not to eat living creatures that breed in seeds or fruit

179: Not to eat any swarming thing

180: Not to eat any animal which is a nevelah

181: Not to eat an animal which is a treifah

182: Not to eat a limb of a living animal

183: Not to eat the gid hanasheh (sinew of the thigh-vein)

184: Not to eat blood

185: Not to eat the fat of a clean animal

186: Not to cook meat in milk

187: Not to eat meat cooked in milk

188: Not to eat the flesh of a stoned ox

189: Not to eat bread made from grain of new crop

190: Not to eat roasted grain of the new crop

191: Not to eat fresh ears of grain

192: Not to eat orlah

193: Not to eat kilai hakerem

194: Not to drink yayin nesech (libation wine for idol worship)

195: No eating or drinking to excess

196: Not to eat on Yom Kippur

197: Not to eat chometz on Pesach

198: Not to eat an admixture of chometz on Pesach

199: Not to eat chometz after noon of 14 Nissan

200: No chametz may be seen in our homes during Pesach

201: Not to possess chametz during Pesach

202: A Nazir may not drink wine

203: A Nazir may not eat fresh grapes

204: A Nazir may not eat dried grapes

205: A Nazir may not eat grape kernels

206: A Nazir may not eat grape husks

207: A Nazir may not rend himself tamei for the dead

208: A Nazir may not rend himself tamei by entering house with corpse

209: A Nazir may not shave

210: Not to reap all harvest without leaving a corner for the poor

211: Not to gather ears of corn that fell during harvesting

212: Not to gather the whole produce of vineyard at vintage time

213: Not to gather single fallen grapes during the vintage

214: Not to return for a forgotten sheaf

215: Not to sow kilayim (diverse kinds of seed in one field)

216: Not to sow grain or vegetables in a vineyard

217: Not to make animals of different species

218: Not to work with two different kinds of animals together

219: Not preventing a beast from eating the produce where working

220: Not to cultivate the soil in the seventh year

221: Not to prune the trees in the seventh year

222: Not reap a self-grown plant in the 7th year as in ordinary year

223: Not gather self-grown fruit in the 7th year as in ordinary year

224: Not to cultivate the soil in the Jubilee year

225: Not to reap the aftergrowths of Jubilee year as in ordinary year

226: Not to gather fruit in Jubilee year as in ordinary year

227: Not to sell out holdings in Eretz Yisrael in perpetuity

228: No to sell the open lands of the Levites

229: Not to forsake the Levites

230: Not to demand payment of debts after Shmitah year

231: Not to withhold a loan to be canceled by the Shmitah year

232: Failing to give charity to our needy brethren

233: Not sending a Hebrew bondman away empty-handed

234: Not demanding payment from a debtor known unable to pay

235: Not lending at interest

236: Not borrowing at interest

237: Not participating in a loan at interest

238: Not oppressing an employee by delaying payment of his wages

239: Not taking a pledge from a debtor by force

240: Not keeping a needed pledge from its owner

241: Not taking a pledge from a widow

242: Not taking food utensils in pledge

243: Not abducting an Israelite

244: Not stealing money

245: Not committing robbery

246: Not fraudulently altering land boundaries

247: Not usurping our debts

248: Not repudiating our debts

249: Not to swear falsely in repudiating our debts

250: Not wronging one another in business

251: Not wronging one another by speech

252: Not wronging a proselyte by speech

253: Not wronging a proselyte in business

254: Not handing over a fugitive bondman

255: Not wronging a fugitive bondman

256: Not dealing harshly with orphans and widows

257: Not employing a Hebrew bondman in degrading tasks

258: Not selling a Hebrew bondman by public auction

259: Not having a Hebrew bondman do unnecessary work

260: Not allowing a heathen to mistreat a Hebrew bondman

261: Not selling a Hebrew bondmaid

262: Not to afflict one's wife or espoused Hebrew bondmaid

262: Not to diminish food, raiment, or conjugal rights from one's wife or Hebrew bondmaid

263: Not selling a captive woman

264: Not enslaving a captive woman

265: Not planning to acquire someone else's property

266: Not coveting another's belongings

267: A hired laborer not eating growing crops

268: A hired laborer not putting of the harvest in his own vessel

269: Not ignoring lost property

270: Not leaving a person who is trapped under his burden

271: Not cheating in measurements and weights

272: Not keeping false weights and measures

273: Judge not to commit unrighteousness

274: Judge not accept gifts from litigants

275: Judge not to favor a litigant

276: Judge not avoid just judgment through fear of a wicked person

277: Judge not to decide in favor of poor man, out of pity

278: Judge not to pervert justice against person of evil repute

279: Judge not to pity one who has killed or caused loss of limb

280: Judge not perverting justice due to proselytes or orphans

281: Judge not to listen to one litigant in absence of the other

282: A court may not convict by a majority of one in a capital case

283: A judge may not rely on the opinion of a fellow judge

283: A judge may not argue for conviction after favoring acquittal

284: Not appointing an unlearned judge

285: Not bearing false witness

286: Judge not to receive a wicked man's testimony

287: Judge not to receive testimony from litigant's relatives

288: Not convicting on the testimony of a single witness

289: Not killing a human being

290: No capital punishment based on circumstantial evidence

291: A witness not acting as an advocate

292: Not killing a murderer without trial

293: Not sparing the life of a pursuer

294: Not punishing a person for a sin committed under duress

295: Not accepting ransom from an unwitting murderer

296: Not accepting a ransom from a willful murderer

297: Not neglecting to save the life of an Israelite in danger

298: Not leaving obstacles on public or private domain

299: Not giving misleading advice

300: Not inflicting excessive corporal punishment

301: Not to bear tales

302: Not to hate another Jew

303: Not to put another to shame

304: Not to take vengeance on another

305: Not to bear a grudge

306: Not to take the entire bird's nest (mother and young)

307: Not to shave the scall

308: Not to cut or cauterize signs of leprosy

309: Not ploughing a valley where Eglah Arufah was done

310: Not permitting a sorcerer to live

311: Not taking bridegroom from home during first year

312: Not to differ from traditional authorities

313: Not to add to the Written or Oral Law

314: Not to detract from the Written or Oral Law

315: Not to curse a judge

316: Not to curse a ruler

317: Not to curse any Israelite

318: Not cursing parents

319: Not smiting parents

320: Not to work on Shabbat

321: Not to go beyond city limits on Shabbat

322: Not to punish on Shabbat

323: Not to work on the first day of Pesach

324: Not to work on the seventh day of Pesach

325: Not to work on Atzeret

326: Not to work on Rosh Hashana

327: Not to work on the first day of Sukkot

328: Not to work on Shemini Atzeret

329: Not to work on Yom Kippur

330: Not to have relations with one's mother

331: Not to have relations with one's father's wife

332: Not to have relations with one's sister

333: Not to have relations with daughter of father's wife if sister

334: Not to have relations with one's son's daughter

335: Not to have relations with one's daughter's daughter

336: Not to have relations with one's daughter

337: Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter

338: Not to have relations with a woman and her son's daughter

339: Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter

340: Not to have relations with one's father's sister

341: Not to have relations with one's mother's sister

342: Not to have relations with wife of father's brother

343: Not to have relations with one's son's wife

344: Not to have relations with brother's wife

345: Not to have relations with sister of wife (during her lifetime)

346: Not to have relations with a menstruant

347: Not to have relations with another man's wife

348: Men may not lie with beasts

349: Women may not lie with beasts

350: A man may not lie carnally with another man

351: A man may not lie carnally with his father

352: A man may not lie carnally with his father's brother

353: Not to be intimate with a kinswoman

354: A mamzer may not have relations with a Jewess

355: Not having relations with a woman without marriage

356: Not remarrying one's divorced wife after she has remarried

357: Not having relations with woman subject to Levirate marriage

358: Not divorcing woman he has raped and been compelled to marry

359: Not divorcing a woman after falsely bringing evil name on her

360: Man incapable of procreation not to marry a Jewess

361: Not to castrate a man or beast

362: Not appointing a a non-Israelite born King

363: A king not owning many horses

364: A king not taking many wives

365: A king not amassing great personal wealth

  The topical list of the 613

God

• To know that God exists (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6)

• Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but Hashem (Exodus 20:3)

• Not to blaspheme (Exodus 22:28), the penalty for which is death (Leviticus 24:16)

• To hallow God's name (Leviticus 22:32)

• Not to profane God's name (Leviticus 22:32)

• To know that God is One, a complete Unity (Deuteronomy 6:4)

• To love God (Deuteronomy 6:5)

• To fear Him reverently (Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20)

• Not to put the word of God to the test (Deuteronomy 6:16)

• To imitate His good and upright ways (Deuteronomy 28:9)


Torah

• To honor the old and the wise (Leviticus 19:32)

• To learn Torah and to teach it (Deuteronomy 6:7)

• To cleave to those who know Him (Deuteronomy 10:20)

• Not to add to the commandments of the Torah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition (Deuteronomy 13:1)

• Not to take away from the commandments of the Torah (Deuteronomy 13:1)

• That every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself (Deuteronomy 31:19)


Signs and Symbols

• To circumcise the male offspring (Genesis 17:12; Leviticus 12:3)

• To put tzitzit on the corners of clothing (Numbers 15:38)

• To bind tefillin on the head (Deuteronomy 6:8)

• To bind tefillin on the arm (Deuteronomy 6:8)

• To affix the mezuzah to the doorposts and gates of your house (Deuteronomy 6:9)


Prayer and Blessings

• To pray to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 6:13)

• To read the Shema in the morning and at night (Deuteronomy 6:7)

• To recite grace after meals (Deuteronomy 8:10)

• Not to lay down a stone for worship (Leviticus 26:1)


Love & Brotherhood/Sisterhood

• To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to wrong anyone in speech (Leviticus 25:17)

• Not to carry tales (Leviticus 19:16)

• Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to take revenge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18)

• Not to put any person to shame (Leviticus 19:17)

• Not to curse any other Israelite (Leviticus 19:14)

• Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Leviticus 19:14)

• To rebuke the sinner (Leviticus 19:17)

• To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Exodus 23:5)

• To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deuteronomy 22:4)

• Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deuteronomy 22:4)


The Poor

• Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Exodus 22:21)

• Not to reap the entire field (Leviticus 19:9; Leviticus 23:22)

• To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Leviticus 19:9)

• Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping) (Leviticus 19:9)

• To leave the gleanings for the poor (Leviticus 19:9)

• Not to gather olelot (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard (Leviticus 19:10)

• To leave olelot (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor (Leviticus 19:10; Deuteronomy 24:21)

• Not to gather the peret (single grapes) that have fallen to the ground (Leviticus 19:10)

• To leave peret (single grapes) of the vineyard for the poor (Leviticus 19:10)

• Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deuteronomy 24:19) This applies to all fruit trees (Deuteronomy 24:20)

• To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deuteronomy 24:19-20)

• Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deuteronomy 15:7)

• To give charity according to one's means (Deuteronomy 15:11)


Gentiles

• To love the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19)

• Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Exodus 22:20)

• Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Exodus 22:20)

• Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deuteronomy 7:3)

• To exact the debt of an alien (Deuteronomy 15:3)

• To lend to an alien at interest (Deuteronomy 23:21)


Family, Marriage, and Divorce

• To honor father and mother (Exodus 20:12)

• Not to smite a father or a mother (Exodus 21:15)

• Not to curse a father or mother (Exodus 21:17)

• To reverently fear father and mother (Leviticus 19:3)

• To be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28)

• That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deuteronomy 23:2)

• That a mamzer shall not marry the daughter of a Jew (Deuteronomy 23:3)

• That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deuteronomy 23:4)

• Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

• Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

• That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no relations with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deuteronomy 23:18)

• To take a wife by kiddushin, the sacrament of marriage (Deuteronomy 24:1)

• That the newly married husband shall be free for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deuteronomy 24:5)

• That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall, and similar duties (Deuteronomy 24:5)

• Not to withhold food, clothing, or conjugal rights from a wife (Exodus 21:10)

• That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Numbers 5:30)

• That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deuteronomy 22:19)

• That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deuteronomy 22:19)

• To divorce by a formal written document (Deuteronomy 24:1)

• That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deuteronomy 24:4)

• That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deuteronomy 25:5)

• To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deuteronomy 25:5)

• That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deuteronomy 25:7-9)


Forbidden Sexual Relations

• Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking which may lead to incest (Leviticus 18:6)

• Not to commit incest with one's mother (Leviticus 18:7)

• Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Leviticus 18:7)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Leviticus 18:8)

• Not to commit incest with one's sister (Leviticus 18:9)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:9)

• Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

• Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

• Not to commit incest with one's daughter (Leviticus 18:11)

• Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Leviticus 18:12)

• Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Leviticus 18:13)

• Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Leviticus 18:14)

• Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Leviticus 18:14)

• Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Leviticus 18:15)

• Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Leviticus 18:16)

• Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

• Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Leviticus 18:18)

• Not to have relations with a woman in her menstrual period (Leviticus 18:19)

• Not to have relations with another man's wife (Leviticus 18:20)

• Not to commit sodomy with a male (Leviticus 18:22)

• Not to have relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

• That a woman shall not have relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

• Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Leviticus 22:24)


Times and Seasons

• That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years shall be calculated by the Supreme Court only (Exodus 12:2)

• Not to travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one's place of residence (Exodus 16:29)

• To sanctify Shabbat (Exodus 20:8)

• Not to do work on Shabbat (Exodus 20:10)

• To rest on Shabbat (Exodus 23:12; 34:21)

• To celebrate the festivals (Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot) (Exodus 23:14)

• To rejoice on the festivals (Deuteronomy 16:14)

• To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16)

• To remove chametz on the Eve of Passover (Exodus 12:15)

• To rest on the first day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:7)

• Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:6-7)

• To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:8)

• Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:8)

• To eat matzah on the first night of Passover (Exodus 12:18)

• That no chametz be in the Israelite's possession during Passover (Exodus 12:19)

• Not to eat any food containing chametz on Passover (Exodus 12:20)

• Not to eat chametz on Passover (Exodus 13:3)

• That chametz shall not be seen in an Israelite's home during Passover (Exodus 13:7)

• To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover (Exodus 13:8)

• Not to eat chametz after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan (Deuteronomy 16:3)

• To count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer (first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Leviticus 23:15)

• To rest on Shavuot (Leviticus 23:21)

• Not to do work on the Shavuot (Leviticus 23:21)

• To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:24)

• Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:25)

• To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah (Numbers 29:1)

• To fast on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:27)

• Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:29)

• Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:31)

• To rest on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:32)

• To rest on the first day of Sukkot (Leviticus 23:35)

• Not to do work on the first day of Sukkot (Leviticus 23:35)

• To rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Leviticus 23:36)

• Not to do work on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Leviticus 23:36)

• To take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants (Leviticus 23:40)

• To dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot (Leviticus 23:42)


Dietary Laws

• To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:2)

• Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Leviticus 11:4)

• To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Leviticus 11:9)

• Not to eat unclean fish (Leviticus 11:11)

• To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deuteronomy 14:11)

• Not to eat unclean fowl (Leviticus 11:13)

• To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Leviticus 11:21)

• Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Leviticus 11:41)

• Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Leviticus 11:41-42)

• Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Leviticus 11:44)

• Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Leviticus 11:43 and 46)

• Not to eat of winged insects (Deuteronomy 14:19)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is treifah (literally torn) (Exodus 22:30)

• Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deuteronomy 14:21)

• To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the laws of shechitah if their flesh is to be eaten (Deuteronomy 12:21)

• Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deuteronomy 12:23)

• Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Leviticus 22:28)

• Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deuteronomy 22:6)

• To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deuteronomy 22:6-7)

• Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Exodus 21:28)

• Not to boil meat with milk (Exodus 23:19)

• Not to eat flesh with milk (Exodus 34:26)

• Not to eat the sinew of the thigh-vein which shrank (Leviticus 32:33)

• Not to eat chelev (tallow-fat) (Leviticus 7:23)

• Not to eat blood (Leviticus 7:26)

• To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Leviticus 17:13)

• Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Leviticus 19:26; Deuteronomy 21:20)


Business Practices

• Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Leviticus 25:14)

• Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Leviticus 25:37)

• Not to borrow on interest (Deuteronomy 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin)

• Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Exodus 22:24)

• To lend to a poor person (Exodus 22:24)

• Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Exodus 22:24)

• Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deuteronomy 24:6)

• Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deuteronomy 24:10)

• Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deuteronomy 24:12)

• To return a pledge to its owner (Deuteronomy 24:13)

• Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deuteronomy 24:17)

• Not to commit fraud in measuring (Leviticus 19:35)

• To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Leviticus 19:36)

• Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deuteronomy 25:13-14)


Employees, Servants and Slaves

• Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Leviticus 19:13)

• That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping (Deuteronomy 23:25-26)

• That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deuteronomy 23:25)

• That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested (Deuteronomy 23:26)

• To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deuteronomy 24:15)

• To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him (Exodus 21:2-6)

• Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Leviticus 25:39)

• Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Leviticus 25:42)

• Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Leviticus 25:43)

• Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Leviticus 25:53)

• Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed from service (Deuteronomy 15:13)

• To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of service), and that the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman (Deuteronomy 15:14)

• To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Exodus 21:8)

• Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Exodus 21:8)

• To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Exodus 21:8-9)

• To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Leviticus 25:46)

• Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Israel (Deuteronomy 23:16)

• Not to wrong such a slave (Deuteronomy 23:17)

• Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat and enjoy (Deuteronomy 25:4)


Vows, Oaths and Swearing

• That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deuteronomy 23:24)

• Not to swear needlessly (Exodus 20:7)

• Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Leviticus 19:12)

• To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah (Numbers 30:2-17)

• Not to break a vow (Numbers 30:3)

• To swear by His name truly (Deuteronomy 10:20)

• Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deuteronomy 23:22)


The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

• To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Exodus 23:11; Leviticus 25:2)

• To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Exodus 23:11) (Leviticus 25:2)

• Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:4)

• Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:4)

• Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years (Leviticus 25:5)

• Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years (Leviticus 25:5)

• To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Leviticus 25:9)

• To release debts in the seventh year (Deuteronomy 15:2)

• Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deuteronomy 15:2)

• Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deuteronomy 15:9)

• To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deuteronomy 31:12)

• To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Leviticus 25:8)

• To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Leviticus 25:10)

• Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25:11)

• Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Leviticus 25:11)

• Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Leviticus 25:11)

• To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:24)


The Court and Judicial Procedure

• To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deuteronomy 16:18)

• Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the Torah even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deuteronomy 1:17)

• To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Leviticus 25:14)

• To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Exodus 22:9)

• To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Exodus 22:13-14)

• To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Numbers 27:8-11)

• To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Exodus 21:33-34)

• To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Exodus 21:35-36)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Exodus 22:4)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Exodus 22:5)

• To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Exodus 22:6-7)

• To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Exodus 22:8)

• Not to curse a judge (Exodus 22:27)

• That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court (Leviticus 5:1)

• Not to testify falsely (Exodus 20:13)

• That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Numbers 35:30)

• That a transgressor shall not testify (Exodus 23:1)

• That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deuteronomy 24:16)

• Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party (Exodus 23:1)

• To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deuteronomy 13:15)

• Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness (Deuteronomy 19:15)

• To give the decision according to the majority, when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Sanhedrin as to matters of law (Exodus 23:2)

• Not to decide, in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal (Exodus 23:2)

• That, in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation (Exodus 23:2)

• To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to render iniquitous decisions (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to take a bribe (Exodus 23:8)

• Not to be afraid of a bad man when trying a case (Deuteronomy 1:17)

• Not to be moved in trying a case by the poverty of one of the parties (Exodus 23:3; Leviticus 19:15)

• Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deuteronomy 24:17)

• Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment of commandments) (Exodus 23:6)

• Not to render a decision on one's personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Exodus 23:7)

• Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial (Numbers 35:12)

• To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deuteronomy 17:11)

• Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deuteronomy 17:11)


Injuries and Damages

• To make a parapet for your roof (Deuteronomy 22:8)

• Not to leave something that might cause hurt (Deuteronomy 22:8)

• To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer (Deuteronomy 25:12)

• Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness (Deuteronomy 25:12)


Property and Property Rights

• Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Leviticus 25:23)

• Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time (Leviticus 25:34)

• That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Leviticus 25:29)

• Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deuteronomy 19:14)

• Not to swear falsely in denial of another's property rights (Leviticus 19:11)

• Not to deny falsely another's property rights (Leviticus 19:11)

• Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 17:16)

• Not to steal personal property (Leviticus 19:11)

• To restore that which one took by robbery (Leviticus 5:23)

• To return lost property (Deuteronomy 22:1)

• Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it (Deuteronomy 22:3)


Criminal Laws

• Not to slay an innocent person (Exodus 20:13)

• Not to kidnap any person of Israel (Exodus 20:13)

• Not to rob by violence (Leviticus 19:13)

• Not to defraud (Leviticus 19:13)

• Not to covet what belongs to another (Exodus 20:14)

• Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deuteronomy 5:18)

• Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Numbers 15:39)


Punishment and Restitution

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword (Exodus 21:20; Leviticus 26:25)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Leviticus 20:10)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Leviticus 20:14)

• That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24)

• To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deuteronomy 21:22)

• That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night (Deuteronomy 21:23)

• To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deuteronomy 21:23)

• Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Numbers 35:31)

• To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Numbers 35:25)

• To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental homicide) (Deuteronomy 19:3)

• Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile (Numbers 35:32)

• To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deuteronomy 21:4)

• Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was broken) (Deuteronomy 21:4)

• To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death (Exodus 21:16; Exodus 21:37; Exodus 22:1)

• That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Exodus 21:18-19)

• To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Exodus 22:15-16)

• That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)

• That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deuteronomy 22:29)

• Not to inflict punishment on Shabbat (Exodus 35:3)

• To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deuteronomy 25:2)

• Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment (Deuteronomy 25:3)

• Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage (Deuteronomy 19:13)

• To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused) (Deuteronomy 19:19)

• Not to punish anyone who has committed an offense under duress (Deuteronomy 22:26)


Prophecy

• To heed the call of every prophet in each generation, provided that he neither adds to, nor takes away from the Torah (Deuteronomy 18:15)

• Not to prophesy falsely (Deuteronomy 18:20)

• Not to refrain from putting a false prophet to death nor to be in fear of him (Deuteronomy 18:22)


Idolatry, Idolaters, and Idolatrous Practices

• Not to make a graven image; neither to make it oneself nor to have it made by others (Exodus 20:4)

• Not to make any figures for ornament, even if they are not worshipped (Exodus 20:20)

• Not to make idols even for others (Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 19:4)

• Not to use the ornament of any object of idolatrous worship (Deuteronomy 7:25)

• Not to make use of an idol or its accessory objects, offerings, or libations (Deuteronomy 7:26)

• Not to drink wine of idolaters (Deuteronomy 32:38)

• Not to worship an idol in the way in which it is usually worshipped (Exodus 20:5)

• Not to bow down to an idol, even if that is not its mode of worship (Exodus 20:5)

• Not to prophesy in the name of an idol (Exodus 23:13; Deuteronomy 18:20)

• Not to hearken to one who prophesies in the name of an idol (Deuteronomy 13:4)

• Not to lead the children of Israel astray to idolatry (Exodus 23:13)

• Not to entice an Israelite to idolatry (Deuteronomy 13:12)

• To destroy idolatry and its appurtenances (Deuteronomy 12:2-3)

• Not to love the enticer to idolatry (Deuteronomy 13:9)

• Not to give up hating the enticer to idolatry (Deuteronomy 13:9)

• Not to save the enticer from capital punishment, but to stand by at his execution (Deuteronomy 13:9)

• A person whom he attempted to entice to idolatry shall not urge pleas for the acquittal of the enticer (Deuteronomy 13:9)

• A person whom he attempted to entice shall not refrain from giving evidence of the enticer's guilt, if he has such evidence (Deuteronomy 13:9)

• Not to swear by an idol to its worshipers, nor cause them to swear by it (Exodus 23:13)

• Not to turn one's attention to idolatry (Leviticus 19:4)

• Not to adopt the institutions of idolaters nor their customs (Leviticus 18:3; Leviticus 20:23)

• Not to pass a child through the fire to Molech (Leviticus 18:21)

• Not to suffer anyone practicing witchcraft to live (Exodus 22:17)

• Not to practice observing times or seasons as favorable or unfavorable (using astrology) (Leviticus 19:26)

• Not to practice nachesh [doing things based on signs and portents; using charms and incantations] (Leviticus 19:26)

• Not to consult ovot (ghosts) (Leviticus 19:31)

• Not to consult yidonim (wizards) (Leviticus 19:31)

• Not to practice kisuf (magic using herbs, stones and objects that people use) (Deuteronomy 18:10)

• Not to practice kessem (a general term for magical practices) (Deuteronomy 18:10)

• Not to practice the art of a chover chaver (casting spells over snakes and scorpions) (Deuteronomy 18:11)

• Not to enquire of an ov (a ghost) (Deuteronomy 18:11)

• Not to seek the meytim (dead) (Deuteronomy 18:11)

• Not to enquire of a yidoni (wizard) (Deuteronomy 18:11)

• Not to remove the entire beard, like the idolaters (Leviticus 19:27)

• Not to round the corners of the head, as the idolatrous priests do (Leviticus 19:27)

• Not to cut oneself or make incisions in one's flesh in grief, like the idolaters (Leviticus 19:28; Deuteronomy 14:1)

• Not to tattoo the body like the idolaters (Leviticus 19:28)

• Not to make a bald spot for the dead (Deuteronomy 14:1)

• Not to plant a tree for worship (Deuteronomy 16:21)

• Not to set up a pillar (for worship) (Deuteronomy 16:22)

• Not to show favor to idolaters (Deuteronomy 7:2)

• Not to make a covenant with the seven (Canaanite, idolatrous) nations (Exodus 23:32; Deuteronomy 7:2)

• Not to settle idolaters in our land (Exodus 23:33)

• To slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city (Deuteronomy 13:16-17)

• Not to rebuild a city that has been led astray to idolatry (Deuteronomy 13:17)

• Not to make use of the property of a city that has been so led astray (Deuteronomy 13:18)


Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

• Not to cross-breed cattle of different species (Leviticus 19:19)

• Not to sow different kinds of seed together in one field (Leviticus 19:19)

• Not to eat the fruit of a tree for three years from the time it was planted (Leviticus 19:23)

• That the fruit of fruit-bearing trees in the fourth year of their planting shall be sacred like the second tithe and eaten in Jerusalem (Leviticus 19:24)

• Not to sow grain or herbs in a vineyard (Deuteronomy 22:9)

• Not to eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard (Deuteronomy 22:9)

• Not to work with beasts of different species, yoked together (Deuteronomy 22:10)


Clothing

• That a man shall not wear women's clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5)

• That a woman should not wear men's clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5)

• Not to wear garments made of wool and linen mixed together (Deuteronomy 22:11)


The Firstborn

• To redeem the firstborn human male (Exodus 13:13; Exodus 34:20; Numbers 18:15)

• To redeem the firstling of an ass (Exodus 13:13; Exodus 34:20)

• To break the neck of the firstling of an ass if it is not redeemed (Exodus 13:13; Exodus 34:20)

• Not to redeem the firstling of a clean beast (Numbers 18:17)


Kohanim and Levites

• That the kohanim shall put on priestly vestments for the service (Exodus 28:2)

• Not to tear the Kohen Gadol's robe (Exodus 28:32)

• That the kohen shall not enter the Sanctuary at all times (i.e., at times when he is not performing service) (Leviticus 16:2)

• That the ordinary kohen shall not defile himself by contact with any dead, other than immediate relatives (Leviticus 21:1-3)

• That the kohanim defile themselves for their deceased relatives (by attending their burial), and mourn for them like other Israelites, who are commanded to mourn for their relatives (Leviticus 21:3)

• That a kohen who had an immersion during the day (to cleanse him from his uncleanness) shall not serve in the Sanctuary until after sunset (Leviticus 21:6)

• That a kohen shall not marry a divorced woman (Leviticus 21:7)

• That a kohen shall not marry a harlot (Leviticus 21:7)

• That a kohen shall not marry a profaned woman (Leviticus 21:7)

• To show honor to a kohen, and to give him precedence in all things that are holy (Leviticus 21:8)

• That a Kohen Gadol shall not defile himself with any dead, even if they are relatives (Leviticus 21:11)

• That a Kohen Gadol shall not go (under the same roof) with a dead body (Leviticus 21:11)

• That the Kohen Gadol shall marry a virgin (Leviticus 21:13)

• That the Kohen Gadol shall not marry a widow (Leviticus 21:14)

• That the Kohen Gadol shall not cohabit with a widow, even without marriage, because he profanes her (Leviticus 21:15)

• That a person with a physical blemish shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Leviticus 21:17

• That a kohen with a temporary blemish shall not serve there (Leviticus 21:21)

• That a person with a physical blemish shall not enter the Sanctuary further than the altar (Leviticus 21:23)

• That a kohen who is unclean shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Leviticus 22:2-3)

• To send the unclean out of the Camp of the Shechinah, that is, out of the Sanctuary (Numbers 5:2)

• That a kohen who is unclean shall not enter the courtyard (Numbers 5:2-3)

• That the kohanim shall bless Israel (Numbers 6:23)

• To set apart a portion of the dough for the kohen (Numbers 15:20)

• That the Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that belongs to the kohanim, nor the kohanim with that belonging to the Levites (Numbers 18:3)

• That one not a descendant of Aaron in the male line shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Numbers 18:4-7)

• That the Levite shall serve in the Sanctuary (Numbers 18:23)

• To give the Levites cities to dwell in, these to serve also as cities of refuge (Numbers 35:2)

• That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any portion of territory in the land (of Israel) (Deuteronomy 18:1)

• That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any share of the spoil (at the conquest of the Promised Land) (Deuteronomy 18:1)

• That the kohanim shall serve in the Sanctuary in divisions, but on festivals, they all serve together (Deuteronomy 18:6-8)


Terumah, Tithes, and Taxes

• That an uncircumcised person shall not eat of the terumah (heave offering), and the same applies to other holy things. This rule is inferred from the law of the Paschal offering, by similarity of phrase (Exodus 12:44-45 and Leviticus 22:10)

• Not to alter the order of separating the terumah and the tithes; the separation be in the order first-fruits at the beginning, then the terumah, then the first tithe, and last the second tithe (Exodus 22:28)

• To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices) (Exodus 30:13)

• That a kohen who is unclean shall not eat of the terumah (Leviticus 22:3-4)

• That a person who is not a kohen or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohen shall not eat of the terumah (Leviticus 22:10)

• That a sojourner with a kohen or his hired servant shall not eat of the terumah (Leviticus 22:10)

• Not to eat tevel (something from which the terumah and tithe have not yet been separated) (Leviticus 22:15)

• To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after taking out terumah) for the Levites (Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:24)

• To tithe cattle (Leviticus 27:32)

• Not to sell the tithe of the herd (Leviticus 27:32-3)

• That the Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had received from the Israelites, and give it to the kohanim (called the terumah of the tithe) (Numbers 18:26)

• Not to eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• Not to consume the second tithe of the vintage outside of Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• Not to consume the second tithe of the oil outside of Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• Not to forsake the Levites (Deuteronomy 12:19)

• To set apart the second tithe in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the sabbatical cycle to be eaten by its owner in Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 14:22)

• To set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the sabbatical cycle for the poor (Deuteronomy 14:28-29)

• To give the kohen the due portions of the carcass of cattle (Deuteronomy 18:3)

• To give the first of the fleece to the kohen (Deuteronomy 18:4)

• To set apart terumah gedolah (the great heave-offering, that is, a small portion of the grain, wine and oil) for the kohen (Deuteronomy 18:4)

• Not to expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food and drink (Deuteronomy 26:14)

• Not to eat the Second Tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of uncleanness, until the tithe had been redeemed (Deuteronomy 26:14)

• Not to eat the Second Tithe, when mourning (Deuteronomy 26:14)

• To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 26:13)


The Temple, the Sanctuary, and Sacred Objects

• Not to build an altar of hewn stone (Exodus 20:22)

• Not to mount the altar by steps (Exodus 20:23)

• To build the Sanctuary (Exodus 25:8)

• Not to remove the staves from the Ark (Exodus 25:15)

• To set the showbread and the frankincense before Hashem every Shabbat (Exodus 25:30)

• To kindle lights in the Sanctuary (Exodus 27:21)

• That the breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod (Exodus 28:28)

• To offer up incense twice daily (Exodus 30:7)

• Not to offer strange incense nor any sacrifice upon the golden altar (Exodus 30:9)

• That the kohen shall wash his hands and feet at the time of service (Exodus 30:19)

• To prepare the oil of anointment and anoint high kohanim and kings with it (Exodus 30:31)

• Not to compound oil for lay use after the formula of the anointing oil (Exodus 30:32-33)

• Not to anoint a stranger with the anointing oil (Exodus 30:3)

• Not to compound anything after the formula of the incense (Exodus 30:37)

• That he who, in error, makes unlawful use of sacred things, shall make restitution of the value of his trespass and add a fifth (Leviticus 5:16)

• To remove the ashes from the altar (Leviticus 6:3

• To keep fire always burning on the altar of the burnt-offering (Leviticus 6:6)

• Not to extinguish the fire on the altar (Leviticus 6:6)

• That a kohen shall not enter the Sanctuary with disheveled hair (Leviticus 10:6)

• That a kohen shall not enter the Sanctuary with torn garments (Leviticus 10:6)

• That the kohen shall not leave the Courtyard of the Sanctuary, during service (Leviticus 10:7)

• That an intoxicated person shall not enter the Sanctuary nor give decisions in matters of the Law (Leviticus 10:9-11)

• To revere the Sanctuary (Leviticus 19:30)

• That when the Ark is carried, it should be carried on the shoulder (Numbers 7:9)

• To observe the second Passover (Numbers 9:11)

• To eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb on it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs (Numbers 9:11)

• Not to leave any flesh of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover until the morning (Numbers 9:12)

• Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover (Numbers 9:12)

• To sound the trumpets at the offering of sacrifices and in times of trouble (Numbers 10:9-10)

• To watch over the edifice continually (Numbers 18:2)

• Not to allow the Sanctuary to remain unwatched (Numbers 18:5)

• That an offering shall be brought by one who has in error committed a trespass against sacred things, or robbed, or lain carnally with a bond-maid betrothed to a man, or denied what was deposited with him and swore falsely to support his denial. This is called a guilt-offering for a known trespass (Leviticus 5:15)

• Not to destroy anything of the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 12:2-4)


Sacrifices and Offerings

• To sanctify the firstling of clean cattle and offer it up (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19)

• To slay the Paschal lamb (Exodus 12:6)

• To eat the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan (Exodus 12:8)

• Not to eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb raw or sodden (Exodus 12:9)

• Not to leave any portion of the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice until the morning unconsumed (Exodus 12:10)

• Not to give the flesh of the Paschal lamb to an Israelite who had become an apostate (Exodus 12:43)

• Not to give flesh of the Paschal lamb to a stranger who lives among you to eat (Exodus 12:45)

• Not to take any of the flesh of the Paschal lamb from the company's place of assembly (Exodus 12:46)

• Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb (Exodus 12:46)

• That the uncircumcised shall not eat of the flesh of the Paschal lamb (Exodus 12:48)

• Not to slaughter the Paschal lamb while there is chametz in the home (Exodus 23:18; Exodus 24:25)

• Not to leave the part of the Paschal lamb that should be burnt on the altar until the morning, when it will no longer be fit to be burnt (Exodus 23:18; Exodus 24:25)

• Not to go up to the Sanctuary for the festival without bringing an offering (Exodus 23:15)

• To bring the first fruits to the Sanctuary (Exodus 23:19)

• That the flesh of a sin-offering and guilt-offering shall be eaten (Exodus 29:33)

• That one not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat the flesh of the holy sacrifices (Exodus 29:33)

• To observe the procedure of the burnt-offering (Leviticus 1:3)

• To observe the procedure of the meal-offering (Leviticus 2:1)

• Not to offer up leaven or honey (Leviticus 2:11)

• That every sacrifice be salted (Leviticus 2:13)

• Not to offer up any offering unsalted (Leviticus 2:13)

• That the Court of Judgment shall offer up a sacrifice if they have erred in a judicial pronouncement (Leviticus 4:13)

• That an individual shall bring a sin-offering if he has sinned in error by committing a transgression, the conscious violation of which is punished with excision (Leviticus 4:27-28)

• To offer a sacrifice of varying value in accordance with one's means (Leviticus 5:7)

• Not to sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin-offering (Leviticus 5:8)

• Not to put olive oil in a sin-offering made of flour (Leviticus 5:11)

• Not to put frankincense on a sin-offering made of flour (Leviticus 5:11)

• That an individual shall bring an offering if he is in doubt as to whether he has committed a sin for which one has to bring a sin-offering. This is called a guilt-offering for doubtful sins (Leviticus 5:17-19)

• That the remainder of the meal offerings shall be eaten (Leviticus 6:9)

• Not to allow the remainder of the meal offerings to become leavened (Leviticus 6:10)

• That the Kohen Gadol shall offer a meal offering daily (Leviticus 6:13)

• Not to eat of the meal offering brought by the kohanim (Leviticus 6:16)

• To observe the procedure of the sin-offering (Leviticus 6:18)

• Not to eat of the flesh of sin offerings, the blood of which is brought within the Sanctuary and sprinkled towards the Veil (Leviticus 6:23)

• To observe the procedure of the guilt-offering (Leviticus 7:1)

• To observe the procedure of the peace-offering (Leviticus 7:11)

• To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has remained over (Leviticus 7:17)

• Not to eat of sacrifices that are eaten beyond the appointed time for eating them (Leviticus 7:18)

• Not to eat of holy things that have become unclean (Leviticus 7:19)

• To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has become unclean (Leviticus 7:19)

• That a person who is unclean shall not eat of things that are holy (Leviticus 7:20)

• A kohen's daughter who profaned herself shall not eat of the holy things, neither of the heave offering nor of the breast, nor of the shoulder of peace offerings (Leviticus 10:14, Leviticus 22:12)

• That a woman after childbirth shall bring an offering when she is clean (Leviticus 12:6)

• That the leper shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed (Leviticus 14:10)

• That a man having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed of his issue (Leviticus 15:13-15)

• That a woman having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after she is cleansed of her issue (Leviticus 15:28-30)

• To observe, on Yom Kippur, the service appointed for that day, regarding the sacrifice, confessions, sending away of the scapegoat (Leviticus 16:3-34)

• Not to slaughter beasts set apart for sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary) (Leviticus 17:3-4)

• Not to eat flesh of a sacrifice that has been left over [beyond the time appointed for its consumption] (Leviticus 19:8)

• Not to sanctify blemished cattle for sacrifice on the altar (Leviticus 22:20)

• That every animal offered up shall be without blemish (Leviticus 22:21)

• Not to inflict a blemish on cattle set apart for sacrifice (Leviticus 22:21)

• Not to slaughter blemished cattle as sacrifices (Leviticus 22:22)

• Not to burn the limbs of blemished cattle upon the altar (Leviticus 22:22)

• Not to sprinkle the blood of blemished cattle upon the altar (Leviticus 22:24)

• Not to offer up a blemished beast that comes from non-Israelites (Leviticus 22:25)

• That sacrifices of cattle can only take place when they are at least eight days old (Leviticus 22:27)

• Not to leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering until the morning (Leviticus 22:30)

• To offer up the meal-offering of the Omer on the evening after the first day of Passover, together with one lamb (Leviticus 23:10)

• Not to eat bread made of new grain before the Omer of barley has been offered up on the second day of Passover (Leviticus 23:14)

• Not to eat roasted grain of the new produce before that time (Leviticus 23:14)

• Not to eat fresh ears of the new grain before that time (Leviticus 23:14)

• To bring on Shavuot loaves of bread together with the sacrifices which are then offered up in connection with the loaves (Leviticus 23:17-20)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice on Passover (Leviticus 23:36)

• That one who vows to Hashem the monetary value of a person shall pay the amount appointed in the Scriptural portion (Leviticus 27:2-8).

• If a beast is exchanged for one that had been set apart as an offering, both become sacred (Leviticus 27:10)

• Not to exchange a beast set aside for sacrifice (Leviticus 27:10)

• That one who vows to Hashem the monetary value of an unclean beast shall pay its value (Leviticus 27:11-13)

• That one who vows the value of a his house shall pay according to the appraisal of the kohen (Leviticus 27:11-13)

• That one who sanctifies to Hashem a portion of his field shall pay according to the estimation appointed in the Scriptural portion (Leviticus 27:16-24)

• Not to transfer a beast set apart for sacrifice from one class of sacrifices to another (Leviticus 27:26)

• To decide in regard to dedicated property as to which is sacred to Hashem and which belongs to the kohen (Leviticus 27:28)

• Not to sell a field devoted to Hashem (Leviticus 27:28)

• Not to redeem a field devoted to Hashem (Leviticus 27:28)

• To make confession before Hashem of any sin that one has committed, when bringing a sacrifice and at other times (Numbers 5:6-7)

• Not to put olive oil in the meal-offering of a woman suspected of adultery (Numbers 5:15)

• Not to put frankincense on it (Numbers 5:15)

• To offer up the regular sacrifices daily (two lambs as burnt offerings) (Numbers 28:3)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice every Shabbat (two lambs) (Numbers 28:9)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice every New Moon (Numbers 28:11)

• To bring an additional offering on Shavuot (Numbers 28:26-27)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice on Rosh Hashanah (Numbers 29:1-6)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice on Yom Kippur (Numbers 29:7-8)

• To offer up an additional sacrifice on Sukkot (Numbers 29:12-34)

• To offer up an additional offering on Shemini Atzeret, which is a festival by itself (Numbers 29:35-38)

• To bring all offerings, whether obligatory or freewill, on the first festival after these were incurred (Deuteronomy 12:5-6)

• Not to offer up sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary) (Deuteronomy 12:13)

• To offer all sacrifices in the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 12:14)

• To redeem cattle set apart for sacrifices that contracted disqualifying blemishes, after which they may be eaten by anyone. (Deuteronomy 12:15)

• Not to eat of the unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• Not to eat the flesh of the burnt-offering (Deuteronomy 12:17).

• That the kohanim shall not eat the flesh of the sin-offering or guilt-offering outside the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary) (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• Not to eat of the flesh of the sacrifices that are holy in a minor degree, before the blood has been sprinkled (on the altar) (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• That the kohen shall not eat the first-fruits before they are set down in the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary) (Deuteronomy 12:17)

• To take trouble to bring sacrifices to the Sanctuary from places outside the land of Israel (Deuteronomy 12:26)

• Not to eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that have been rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish (Deuteronomy 14:3)

• Not to do work with cattle set apart for sacrifice (Deuteronomy 15:19)

• Not to shear beasts set apart for sacrifice (Deuteronomy 15:1)

• Not to leave any portion of the festival offering brought on the fourteenth of Nissan unto the third day (Deuteronomy 16:4)

• Not to offer up a beast that has a temporary blemish (Deuteronomy 17:1)

• Not to bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog (apparently a euphemism for sodomy) (Deuteronomy 23:19)

• To read the portion prescribed on bringing the first fruits (Deuteronomy 26:5-10)


Ritual Purity and Impurity

• That eight species of creeping things defile by contact (Leviticus 11:29-30)

• That foods become defiled by contact with unclean things (Leviticus 11:34)

• That anyone who touches the carcass of a beast that died of itself shall be unclean (Leviticus 11:39)

• That a lying-in woman is unclean like a menstruating woman (in terms of uncleanness) (Leviticus 12:2-5)

• That a leper is unclean and defiles (Leviticus 13:2-46)

• That the leper shall be universally recognized as such by the prescribed marks. So too, all other unclean persons should declare themselves as such (Leviticus 13:45)

• That a leprous garment is unclean and defiles (Leviticus 13:47-49)

• That a leprous house defiles (Leviticus 14:34-46)

• That a man, having a running issue, defiles (Leviticus 15:1-15)

• That the seed of copulation defiles (Leviticus 15:16)

• That purification from all kinds of defilement shall be effected by immersion in the waters of a mikvah (Leviticus 15:16)

• That a menstruating woman is unclean and defiles others (Leviticus 15:19-24)

• That a woman, having a running issue, defiles (Leviticus 15:25-27)

• To carry out the ordinance of the Red Heifer so that its ashes will always be available (Numbers 19:9)

• That a corpse defiles (Numbers 19:11-16)

• That the waters of separation defile one who is clean, and cleanse the unclean from pollution by a dead body (Numbers 19:19-22)


Lepers and Leprosy

• Not to drove off the hair of the scall (Leviticus 13:33)

• That the procedure of cleansing leprosy, whether of a man or of a house, takes place with cedar-wood, hyssop, scarlet thread, two birds, and running water (Leviticus 14:1-7)

• That the leper shall shave all his hair (Numbers 14:9)

• Not to pluck out the marks of leprosy (Deuteronomy 24:8)


The King

• Not to curse a ruler, that is, the King or the head of the College in the land of Israel (Exodus 22:27)

• To appoint a king (Deuteronomy 17:15)

• Not to appoint as ruler over Israel, one who comes from non-Israelites (Deuteronomy 17:15)

• That the King shall not acquire an excessive number of horses (Deuteronomy 17:16)

• That the King shall not take an excessive number of wives (Deuteronomy 17:17)

• That he shall not accumulate an excessive quantity of gold and silver (Deuteronomy 17:17)

• That the King shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself, in addition to the one that every person should write, so that he writes two scrolls (Deuteronomy 17:18)


Nazarites

• That a Nazarite shall not drink wine, or anything mixed with wine which tastes like wine; and even if the wine or the mixture has turned sour, it is prohibited to him (Numbers 6:3)

• That he shall not eat fresh grapes (Numbers 6:3)

• That he shall not eat dried grapes (raisins) (Numbers 6:3)

• That he shall not eat the kernels of the grapes (Numbers 6:4)

• That he shall not eat of the skins of the grapes (Numbers 6:4)

• That the Nazarite shall permit his hair to grow (Numbers 6:5)

• That the Nazarite shall not cut his hair (Numbers 6:5)

• That he shall not enter any covered structure where there is a dead body (Numbers 6:6)

• That a Nazarite shall not defile himself for any dead person (by being in the presence of the corpse) (Numbers 6:7)

• That the Nazarite shall shave his hair when he brings his offerings at the completion of the period of his Nazariteship, or within that period if he has become defiled (Numbers 6:9)


Wars

• That those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be panic-stricken by them during battle (Deuteronomy 3:22, 7:21, 20:3)

• To anoint a special kohen (to speak to the soldiers) in a war (Deuteronomy 20:2)

• In a permissive war (as distinguished from obligatory ones), to observe the procedure prescribed in the Torah (Deuteronomy 20:10)

• Not to keep alive any individual of the seven Canaanite nations (Deuteronomy 20:16)

• To exterminate the seven Canaanite nations from the land of Israel (Deuteronomy 20:17)

• Not to destroy fruit trees (wantonly or in warfare) (Deuteronomy 20:19-20)

• To deal with a beautiful woman taken captive in war in the manner prescribed in the Torah (Deuteronomy 21:10-14)

• Not to sell a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) (Deuteronomy 21:14)

• Not to degrade a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) to the condition of a bondwoman (Deuteronomy 21:14)

• Not to offer peace to the Ammonites and the Moabites before waging war on them, as should be done to other nations (Deuteronomy 23:7)

• That anyone who is unclean shall not enter the Camp of the Levites (Deuteronomy 23:11)

• To have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes (Deuteronomy 23:13)

• To keep that place sanitary (Deuteronomy 23:14-15)

• Always to remember what Amalek did (Deuteronomy 25:17)

• That the evil done to us by Amalek shall not be forgotten (Deuteronomy 25:19)

• Destroy the seed of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:19)


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