THE 613 LAWS of the OLD TESTAMENT
Laws of God as understood by the Old Testament Hebrews
[simplified listing]
The Hebrew word for "LAW" is Torah. In its most limited definition it refers
to the Pentateuch. Yet, the word, Torah, is used to speak of the entire Old
Testament as well.
Torah basically means "to teach or to instruct". It infers to either human
instruction or Divine instruction. Through the Law, God shows His interest in
all aspects of man's life. Motivated by love, God instructs His people in the
ways of Wisdom and knowledge. Since God's Law is given for our good, its
regulations, both negative and positive are for our protection and prosperity.
The Law is the revealed mind of God. His Will is His commandment, and His
commandment is His Law. Thus, the Law is Divine since it comes from a
Divine source. It is also perfect, as God Himself is perfect. God's Law
supercedes all other laws. It transcends all other law, making it the
Supreme Law of the entire earth.
God's Law is also comprehensive and universal. It speaks to all areas of life,
and to every living soul upon the face of the earth. The Law speaks of
ceremonial truths, moral truths and dietary truths. It speaks of man's duty
toward God, and man's duty toward his fellow man.
The Law addresses, philosophy, psychology, biology, physics, all other
sciences, economics, ecology, Theology, culture, politics, military relations,
international and domestic relations, family life, church life, business,
criminal and civil law, and every other aspect of life thinkable. There is
nothing that God's Law fails to address specifically. God regulates all life by
His perfect Law.
The New Testament word for Law is Nomos. This is where we get the word
Theonomic [Theo = God - Nomos = Law]. The New Testament is just as
much God's Law as the Torah.
Since God is the Lawgiver, and His Word is His Law, then it follows that
every Word which proceeds from His mouth is His Law. The New Testament
is as much God's Law as the Old. The two are One harmonious union.
Furthermore, the New Testament explains the Old. While the New
Testament is contained in the Old Testament, the Old acts as particular
case studies of applied jurisprudence.
The following list will help in understanding the division of God's Old
Testament Law, which the Hebrews have recorded, as 613.
If we combine both Old and New Testament as One Law, the list grows and
becomes more comprehensive. Yet, what we find in the New Testament is
simply an augmentation of what is already contained in the Old.
GOD
1. To know that God exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6)
2. Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal (Ex.
20:3)
3. Not to blaspheme (Ex. 22:27-28 ) Cf Lev 24:16
4. To hallow God's name (Lev. 22:32)
5. Not to profane God's name (Lev. 22:32
6. To know that God is One, a complete Unity (Deut. 6:4)
7. To love God (Deut. 6:5)
8. To fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20)
9. Not to put the word of God to the test (Deut. 6:16)
10. To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)
The Law
11. To honor the old and the wise (Lev. 19:32)
12. To learn Torah and to teach it (Deut. 6:7)
13. To cleave to those who know Him (Deut. 10:20)
14. Not to add to the commandments of the Torah. (Deut. 13:1)
15. Not to take away from the commandments of the Torah (Deut. 13:1)
16. That every person shall write a scroll of the Torah for himself (Deut.
31:19)
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS
17. To circumcise the male offspring (Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3)
18. To put fringes on the corners of clothing (Num. 15:38)
19. To bind God's Word on the head (Deut. 6:8)
20. To bind God's Word on the arm (Deut. 6:8)
21. To affix the mezuzah to the door posts and gates of your house (Deut.
6:9)
Prayer and Blessing
22. To pray to God (Ex. 23:25; Deut. 6:13)
23. To read the Shema [lit:The Hearing] in the morning and at night
(Deut. 6:7)
24. To recite grace after meals (Deut. 8:10)
25. Not to lay down a stone for worship (Lev. 26:1)
Love and Brotherhood
26. To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Lev. 19:18)
27. Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16)
28. Not to wrong any one in speech (Lev. 25:17)
29. Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16)
30. Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Lev. 19:17)
31. Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18)
32. Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18)
33. Not to put any Jew to shame (Lev. 19:17)
34. Not to curse any other Israelite (Lev. 19:14)
35. Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19:14)
(this includes doing anything that will cause another to sin)
36. To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17)
37. To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5)
38. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deut. 22:4)
39. Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided
(Deut. 22:4)
The Poor and Unfortunate
40. Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21)
41. Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22)
42. To leave the unreaped corners of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev.
19:9)
43. Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while
reaping)
(Lev. 19:9)
44. To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
45. Not to gather ol'loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard (Lev.
19:10)
46. To leave ol'loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the
poor (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 24:21)
47. Not to gather the single grapes that have fallen to the ground (Lev.
19:10)
48. To leave the single grapes of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10)
49. Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deut. 24:19) This applies to
all fruit trees (Deut. 24:20)
50. To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deut. 24:19-20)
51. Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he
needs (Deut. 15:7)
52. To give charity according to one's means (Deut. 15:11)
Treatment of the Gentiles
53. To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19) (CCA61).
54. Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20)
55. Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex. 22:20)
.
56. Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7:3)
57. To exact the debt of an alien (Deut. 15:3)
58. To lend to an alien at interest (Deut. 23:21)
Marriage, Divorce and Family
59. To honor father and mother (Ex. 20:12)
60. Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15)
61. Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17)
62. To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19:3)
63. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28)
64. That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deut. 23:2)
65. That a bastard [Heb. mamzer = illegitimate son] shall not marry the
daughter of a Jew (Deut. 23:3)
66. That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an
Israelite (Deut. 23:4)
67. Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for
three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)
68. Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three
generations (Deut. 23:8-9)
69. That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no
intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of
marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deut. 23:18)
70. To take a wife by the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24:1)
71. That the newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice
with his wife (Deut. 24:5)
72. 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 (Deut. 24:5)
73. Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex.
21:10)
74. That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in
the Torah (Num. 5:30)
75. That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of
unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut.
22:19)
76. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has
published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut.
22:19)
77. To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24:1)
78. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the
divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4)
79. That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to
anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deut. 25:5) (this is only in
effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below).
80. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5)
(this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below )
81. That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to
marry her) (Deut. 25:7-9)
Forbidden Sexual Relations
82. Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as sensual kissing,
carnal embracing, or provocative winking which may lead to incest (Lev.
18:6)
83. Not to commit incest with one's mother (Lev. 18:7)
84. Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Lev. 18:7)
85. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Lev. 18:8)
86. Not to commit incest with one's sister (Lev. 18:9)
87. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:9)
88. Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Lev. 18:10)
89. Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Lev. 18:10)
90. Not to commit incest with one's daughter (this is not explicitly in the
Torah but is inferred from other explicit commands that would include it)
91. Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Lev. 18:12)
92. Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Lev. 18:13)
93. Not to commit incest with one's father's brothers wife (Lev. 18:14)
94. Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Lev. 18:14)
95. Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Lev. 18:15)
96. Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Lev. 18:16)
97. Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17)
98. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Lev. 18:17)
99. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Lev.
18:17)
100. Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Lev. 18:18)
101. Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev.
18:19)
102. Not to have intercourse with another man's wife (Lev. 18:20)
103. Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22)
104. Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
105. That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
106. Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a
domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24)
Times and Seasons
107. That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the
months and years shall be calculated by the Supreme Court only (Ex.
12:2)
108. Not to travel on the Sabbath outside the limits of one's place of
residence
(Ex. 16:29)
109. To sanctify the Sabbath (Ex. 20:8)
110. Not to do work on Sabbath (Ex. 20:10)
111. To rest on Sabbath (Ex. 23:12; 34:21)
112. To celebrate the festivals (Ex. 23:14)
113. To rejoice on the festivals (Deut. 16:14)
114. To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deut. 16:16)
115. To remove leaven on the Eve of Passover (Ex. 12:15)
116. To rest on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:7)
117. Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:6-7)
118. To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
119. Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 12:16;Lev. 23:8)
120. To eat "matzah" [unleavened bread] on the first night of
Passover (Ex. 12:18)
121. That no leaven be in the Israelite's possession during Passover (Ex.
12:19)
122. Not to eat any food containing leaven on Passover (Ex. 12:20)
123. Not to eat leaven on Passover (Ex. 13:3)
124. That leaven shall not be seen in an Israelite's home during Passover
(Ex. 13:7)
125. To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of
Passover (Ex. 13:8)
126. Not to eat leaven after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan (Deut.
16:3)
127. To count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer
(i. e. first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Lev. 23:15)
128. To rest on Pentecost (Lev. 23:21)
129. Not to do work on the feast of Pentecost (Lev. 23:21)
130. To rest on Rosh Hashanah [i. e the feast of Trumpets] (Lev. 23:24)
(CCA29)
131. Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:25)
132. To hear the sound of the Trumpet [Heb. shofar or ram's horn]
(Num. 29:1)
133. To fast on Yom Kippur i. e the day of Atonement (Lev. 23:27)
134. Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:29) (CCN152)
135. Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:31) (CCN151)
136. To rest on the Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:32)
137. To rest on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles or Booths. [Heb.
Sukkot] (Lev. 23:35)
138. Not to do work on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles. (Lev.
23:35)
139. To rest on the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:36)
140. Not to do work on the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles
(Lev. 23:36)
141. To take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants (Lev.
23:40)
142. To dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot (Lev. 23:42)
Dietary Laws
143. To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from
the unclean) (Lev. 11:2)
144. Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4)
145. To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from
the unclean (Lev. 11:9)
146. Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11)
147. To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the
unclean (Deut. 14:11)
148. Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13)
149. To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from
the unclean (Lev. 11:21)
150. Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41)
151. Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41-42)
152. Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44)
153. Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Lev. 11:43 and 46)
154. Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19)
155. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is torn (Ex. 22:30)
156. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21)
157. To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the law if their flesh is to be
eaten (Deut. 12:21)
158. Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23)
159. Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day
(Lev. 22:28)
160. Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deut. 22:6)
161. To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6-7)
162. Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex.
21:28)
163. Not to boil meat with milk (Ex. 23:19)
164. Not to eat flesh with milk (Ex. 34:26)
165. Not to eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32:33)
166. Not to eat the fat of the offering (Lev. 7:23)
167. Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26)
168. To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc. ) and of fowl
that have been killed (Lev. 17:13)
169. Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against
father or mother) (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20)
Business Practices
170. Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25:14)
171. Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25:37)
172. Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause
the lender to sin)
173. 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 (Ex. 22:24)
174. To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24)
175. Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the
creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex. 22:24)
176. Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6)
177. Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24:10)
178. Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it
(Deut. 24:12)
179. To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24:13)
180. Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24:17)
181. Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35)
182. To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36)
183. Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14)
Employees, Servants and Slaves
184. Not to delay payment of a hired man's wages (Lev. 19:13)
185. That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is
reaping (Deut. 23:25-26)
186. That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deut.
23:25)
187. That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested
(Deut. 23:26)
188. To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deut. 24:15)
189. To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the
laws appertaining to him (Ex. 21:2-6)
190. Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Lev.
25:39)
191. Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Lev. 25:42)
192. Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Lev. 25:43)
193. Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to
him (Lev. 25:53)
194. Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when
he is freed from service (Deut. 15:13)
195. To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his
term of service), and the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman
(Deut. 15:14)
196. To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8)
197. Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Ex. 21:8)
198. To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8-9)
199. To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Lev. 25:46)
200. Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his
owner who lives outside Palestine (Deut. 23:16)
201. Not to wrong such a slave (Deut. 23:17)
202. Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working in produce which it can eat
and enjoy (Deut. 25:4)
Vows, Oaths and Swearing
203. That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deut. 23:24)
204. Not to swear needlessly (Ex. 20:7)
205. Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Lev. 19:12)
206. To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set
forth in the Torah (Num. 30:2-17)
207. Not to break a vow (Num. 30:3)
208. To swear by His name truly (Deut. 10:20)
209. Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings
(Deut. 23:22)
The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
210. To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:2)
211. To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11) (Lev.
25:2)
212. Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
213. Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
214. Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the
same way as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5)
215. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same
way as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25:5)
216. To sound the Ram's horn in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:9)
217. To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15:2)
218. Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed
(Deut. 15:2)
219. Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the
release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9)
220. To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh
year (Deut. 31:12)
221. To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven
years (Lev. 25:8)
222. To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow
(Lev. 25:10)
223. Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee
Year (Lev. 25:11)
224. Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee
Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
225. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way
as in other years (Lev. 25:11)
226. To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25:24)
The Court and Judicial Procedure
227. To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deut.
16:18)
228. 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 (Deut.
1:17)
229. To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Lev. 25:14)
230. To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Ex. 22:9)
231. To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable
(Ex. 22:13-14)
232. To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Num. 27:8-11)
233. To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Ex. 21:33-34)
234. To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Ex. 21:35-36)
235. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Ex. 22:4)
236. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Ex. 22:5)
237. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Ex.
22:6-7)
238. To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Ex.
22:8)
239. Not to curse a judge (Ex. 22:27)
240. That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court (Lev. 5:1)
241. Not to testify falsely (Ex. 20:13)
242. That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down
the law in that particular case (Num. 35:30)
243. That a transgressor shall not testify (Ex. 23:1)
244. That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the
defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deut. 24:16)
245. Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other
party (Ex. 23:1)
246. To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deut. 13:15)
247. Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness
(Deut. 19:15)
248. 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 (Ex. 23:2)
249. 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 (Ex. 23:2)
250. That, in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not
later on argue for condemnation (Ex. 23:2)
251. To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Lev. 19:15)
252. Not to render iniquitous decisions (Lev. 19:15)
253. Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Lev. 19:15)
254. Not to take a bribe (Ex. 23:8)
255. Not to be afraid of a bad man, when trying a case (Deut. 1:17)
256. Not to be moved in trying a case, by the poverty of one of the parties
(Ex. 23:3; Lev. 19:15)
257. Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deut. 24:17)
258. Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment
of commandments) (Ex. 23:6)
259. Not to render a decision on one's personal opinion, but only on the
evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Ex. 23:7)
260. Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his
trial (Num. 35:12)
261. To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deut. 17:11)
262. Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deut. 17:11)
Injuries and Damages
263. To make a parapet for your roof (Deut. 22:8)
264. Not to leave something that might cause hurt (Deut. 22:8)
265. To save the pursued even at the cost of the life of the pursuer (Deut.
25:12)
266. Not to spare a pursuer, but he is to be slain before he reaches the
pursued and slays the latter, or uncovers his nakedness (Deut. 25:12)
Property and Property Rights
267. Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Lev. 25:23)
268. 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 (Lev. 25:34)
269. That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year
(Lev. 25:29)
270. Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deut. 19:14)
271. Not to swear falsely in denial of another's property rights (Lev. 19:11)
272. Not to deny falsely another's property rights (Lev. 19:11)
273. Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deut. 17:16)
274. Not to steal personal property (Lev. 19:11)
275. To restore that which one took by robbery (Lev. 5:23)
276. To return lost property (Deut. 22:1)
277. Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation
to return it (Deut. 22:3)
Criminal Laws
278. Not to slay an innocent person (Ex. 20:13)
279. Not to kidnap any person of Israel (Ex. 20:13)
280. Not to rob by violence (Lev. 19:13)
281. Not to defraud (Lev. 19:13)
282. Not to covet what belongs to another (Ex. 20:14)
283. Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deut. 5:18)
284. Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Num. 15:39)
Punishment and Restitution
285. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the
sword (Ex. 21:20; Lev. 26:25)
286. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev.
20:10)
287. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev. 20:14)
288. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24)
289. To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deut.
21:22)
290. That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging
on the tree over night (Deut. 21:23)
291. To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23)
292. Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35:31)
293. To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Num. 35:25)
294. To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental
homicide)
(Deut. 19:3)
295. Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve
him from exile (Num. 35:32)
296. To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a
murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered)
(Deut. 21:4)
297. Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer's neck was
broken)
(Deut. 21:4)
298. To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer
death (Ex. 21:16; Ex. 21:37; Ex. 22:1)
299. That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation
(Ex. 21:18-19)
300. To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an
unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the
case (Ex. 22:15-16)
301. That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut.
22:28-29)
302. That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with
the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29)
303. Not to inflict punishment on the sabbath (Ex. 35:3) (because some
punishments were inflicted by fire)
304. To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25:2)
305. Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has
incurred that punishment (Deut. 25:3) (and by implication, not to strike
anyone)
306. Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one
who has caused damage (Deut. 19:13)
307. To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the
accused) (Deut. 19:19)
308. Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress
(Deut. 22:26)
Prophecy
309. To heed the call of every prophet in each generation, provided that he
neither adds to, nor takes away from the Torah (Deut. 18:15)
310. Not to prophesy falsely (Deut. 18:20)
311. Not to refrain from putting a false prophet to death nor to be in fear
of him (Deut. 18:22) (negative)
Idolatry, Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices
312. Not to make a graven image; neither to make it oneself nor to have it
made by others (Ex. 20:4)
313. Not to make any figures for ornament, even if they are not
worshipped (Ex. 20:20)
314. Not to make idols even for others (Ex. 34:17; Lev. 19:4)
315. Not to use the ornament of any object of idolatrous worship (Deut.
7:25)
316. Not to make use of an idol or its accessory objects, offerings, or
libations (Deut. 7:26)
317. Not to drink wine of idolaters (Deut. 32:38)
318. Not to worship an idol in the way in which it is usually worshipped
(Ex. 20:5)
319. Not to bow down to an idol, even if that is not its mode of worship
(Ex. 20:5)
320. Not to prophesy in the name of an idol (Ex. 23:13; Deut. 18:20)
321. Not to hearken to one who prophesies in the name of an idol (Deut.
13:4)
322. Not to lead the children of Israel astray to idolatry (Ex. 23:13)
323. Not to entice an Israelite to idolatry (Deut. 13:12)
324. To destroy idolatry and its appurtenances (Deut. 12:2-3)
325. Not to love the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13:9)
326. Not to give up hating the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13:9)
327. Not to save the enticer from capital punishment, but to stand by at
his execution (Deut. 13:9)
328. A person whom he attempted to entice to idolatry shall not urge pleas
for the acquittal of the enticer (Deut. 13:9)
329. A person whom he attempted to entice shall not refrain from giving
evidence of the enticer's guilt, if he has such evidence (Deut. 13:9)
330. Not to swear by an idol to its worshipers, nor cause them to swear by it
(Ex. 23:13)
331. Not to turn one's attention to idolatry (Lev. 19:4)
332. Not to adopt the institutions of idolaters nor their customs (Lev. 18:3;
Lev. 20:23)
333. Not to pass a child through the fire to Molech (Lev. 18:21)
334. Not to suffer any one practicing witchcraft to live (Ex. 22:17)
335. Not to practice observing times or seasons -i. e. astrology (Lev.
19:26)
336. Not to practice superstitions/witchcraft (doing things based on signs
and potions; using charms and incantations) (Lev. 19:26)
337. Not to consult familiar spirits or ghosts (Lev. 19:31)
338. Not to consult wizards (Lev. 19:31)
339. Not to practice specific magic by using stones herbs or objects. (Deut.
18:10)
340. Not to practice magical practices in general. (Deut. 18:10)
341. Not to practice the art of casting spells over snakes and scorpions
(Deut. 18:11)
342. Not to enquire of a familiar spirit or ghost (Deut. 18:11)
343. Not to seek the dead (Deut. 18:11)
344. Not to enquire of a wizard) (Deut. 18:11)
345. Not to remove the entire beard, like the idolaters (Lev. 19:27)
346. Not to round the corners of the head, as the idolatrous priests do
(Lev. 19:27)
347. Not to cut oneself or make incisions in one's flesh in grief, like the
idolaters (Lev. 19:28; Deut. 14:1)
348. Not to tattoo the body like the idolaters (Lev. 19:28)
349. Not to make a bald spot for the dead (Deut. 14:1)
350. Not to plant a tree for worship (Deut. 16:21)
351. Not to set up a pillar (for worship) (Deut. 16:22)
352. Not to show favor to idolaters (Deut. 7:2)
353. Not to make a covenant with the seven (Canaanite, idolatrous)
nations (Ex. 23:32; Deut. 7:2)
354. Not to settle idolaters in our land (Ex. 23:33)
355. To slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn
that city (Deut. 13:16-17)
356. Not to rebuild a city that has been led astray to idolatry (Deut. 13:17)
357. Not to make use of the property of city that has been so led astray
(Deut. 13:18)
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
358. Not to cross-breed cattle of different species (Lev. 19:19)
359. Not to sow different kinds of seed together in one field (Lev. 19:19)
360. Not to eat the fruit of a tree for three years from the time it was
planted (Lev. 19:23)
361. 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 (Lev. 19:24)
362. Not to sow grain or herbs in a vineyard (Deut. 22:9)
363. Not to eat the produce of diverse seeds sown in a vineyard (Deut.
22:9)
364. Not to work with beasts of different species, yoked together (Deut.
22:10)
Clothing
365. That a man shall not wear women's clothing (Deut. 22:5)
366. That a woman should not wear men's clothing (Deut. 22:5)
367. Not to wear garments made of wool and linen mixed together (Deut.
22:11)
The Firstborn
368. To redeem the firstborn human male (Ex. 13:13; Ex. 34:20;Num.
18:15)
369. To redeem the firstling of an ass (Ex. 13:13; Ex. 34:20)
370. To break the neck of the firstling of an ass if it is not redeemed (Ex.
13:13; Ex. 34:20)
371. Not to redeem the firstling of a clean beast (Num. 18:17)
High Priest, Priests and Levites
372. That the Priest shall put on priestly vestments for the service (Ex.
28:2)
373. Not to tear the High Priest's robe (Ex. 28:32)
374. That the Priest shall not enter the Sanctuary at all times (i. e. ,at times
when he is not performing service) (Lev. 16:2)
375. That the ordinary Priest shall not defile himself by contact with any
dead, other than immediate relatives (Lev. 21:1-3)
376. That the sons of Aaron 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 (Lev. 21:3)
377. That a Priest who had an immersion during the day (to cleanse him
from his uncleanness) shall not serve in the Sanctuary until after sunset
(Lev. 21:6)
378. That a Priest shall not marry a divorced woman (Lev. 21:7)
379. That a Priest shall not marry a harlot (Lev. 21:7)
380. That a Priest shall not marry a profaned woman (Lev. 21:7)
381. To show honor to a Priest, and to give him precedence in all things
that are holy (Lev. 21:8)
382. That a High Priest shall not defile himself with any dead, even if they
are relatives (Lev. 21:11)
383. That a High Priest shall not go (under the same roof) with a dead
body (Lev. 21:11)
384. That the High Priest shall marry a virgin (Lev. 21:13)
385. That the High Priest shall not marry a widow (Lev. 21:14)
386. That the High Priest shall not cohabit with a widow, even without
marriage, because he profanes her (Lev. 21:15)
387. That a person with a physical blemish shall not serve (in the
Sanctuary) (Lev. 21:17)
388. That a Priest with a temporary blemish shall not serve there (Lev.
21:21)
389. That a person with a physical blemish shall not enter the Sanctuary
further than the altar (Lev. 21:23)
390. That a Priest who is unclean shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Lev.
22:2-3)
391. To send the unclean out of the Camp, that is, out of the Sanctuary
(Num. 5:2)
392. That a Priest who is unclean shall not enter the courtyard (Num. 5:2-
3) This refers to the Camp of the Sanctuary
393. That the sons or descendants of Aaron shall bless Israel (Num. 6:23)
394. To set apart a portion of the dough for the Priest (Num. 15:20)
395. That the Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that
belongs to the sons of Aaron, nor the sons of Aaron with that belonging to
the Levites (Num. 18:3)
396. That one not a descendant of Aaron in the male line shall not serve
(in the Sanctuary) (Num. 18:4-7)
397. That the Levite shall serve in the Sanctuary (Num. 18:23)
398. To give the Levites cities to dwell in, these to serve also as cities of
refuge (Num. 35:2)
399. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any portion of territory in the
land (of Israel) (Deut. 18:1)
400. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any share of the spoil (at the
conquest of the Promised Land) (Deut. 18:1)
401. That the sons of aaron shall serve in the Sanctuary in divisions, but
on festivals, they all serve together (Deut. 18:6-8)
Tithes, Taxes and T'rumah [Hebrew Offerings]
402. That an uncircumcised person shall not shall not eat of the t'rumah
(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 (Ex.
12:44-45 and Lev. 22:10) but it is not explicitly set forth in the Torah.
Traditionally, it has been learnt that the rule that the uncircumcised must
not eat holy things is an essential principle of the Torah and not an
enactment of the Scribes
403. Not to alter the order of separating the t'rumah and the tithes; the
separation be in the order first-fruits at the beginning, then the t'rumah,
then the first tithe, and last the second tithe (Ex. 22:28)
404. To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the
public sacrifices) (Ex. 30:13)
405. That a preist [kohein] who is unclean shall not eat of the t'rumah
(Lev. 22:3-4)
406. That a person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter
of a kohein shall not eat of the t'rumah (Lev. 22:10)
407. That a sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the
t'rumah (Lev. 22:10)
408. Not to eat unholy things [Heb. tevel] (something from which the
t'rumah and tithe have not yet been separated) (Lev. 22:15)
409. To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after
taking out t'rumah) for the Levites (Lev. 27:30; Num. 18:24)
410. To tithe cattle (Lev. 27:32)
411. Not to sell the tithe of the heard (Lev. 27:32-33)
412. That the Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had
received from the Israelites, and give it to the Priest [Heb. kohanim]
(called the t'rumah of the tithe) (Num. 18:26)
413. Not to eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
414. Not to consume the second tithe of the vintage outside of Jerusalem
(Deut. 12:17)
415. Not to consume the second tithe of the oil outside of Jerusalem (Deut.
12:17)
416. Not to forsake the Levites (Deut. 12:19); but their gifts (dues) should
be given to them, so that they might rejoice therewith on each and every
festival
417. 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 (Deut. 14:22)
418. To set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the
sabbatical cycle for the poor (Deut. 14:28-29)
419. To give the kohein [i. e. Priest] the due portions of the carcass of
cattle (Deut. 18:3)
420. To give the first of the fleece to the priest (Deut. 18:4)
421. To set apart a small portion of the grain, wine and oil for the Priest
[Heb. kohein] [Heb. t'rumah g'dolah i. e. (the great heave-offering)
(Deut. 18:4)
422. Not to expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food
and drink (Deut. 26:14)
423. Not to eat the Second Tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of
uncleanness, until the tithe had been redeemed (Deut. 26:14)
424. Not to eat the Second Tithe, when mourning (Deut. 26:14)
425. To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the
Sanctuary (Deut. 26:13
The Temple, the Sanctuary and Sacred Objects
426. Not to build an altar of hewn stone (Ex. 20:22)
427. Not to mount the altar by steps (Ex. 20:23)
428. To build the Sanctuary (Ex. 25:8)
429. Not to remove the staves from the Ark (Ex. 25:15)
430. To set the showbread and the frankincense before the Lord every
Sabbath (Ex. 25:30)
431. To kindle lights in the Sanctuary (Ex. 27:21)
432. That the breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod
(Ex. 28:28)
433. To offer up incense twice daily (Ex. 30:7)
434. Not to offer strange incense nor any sacrifice upon the golden
altar (Ex. 30:9)
435. That the Priest shall wash his hands and feet at the time of service
(Ex. 30:19)
436. To prepare the oil of anointment and anoint high priests and kings
with it (Ex. 30:31)
437. Not to compound oil for lay use after the formula of the anointing oil
(Ex. 30:32-33)
438. Not to anoint a stranger with the anointing oil (Ex. 30:32)
439. Not to compound anything after the formula of the incense
(Ex. 30:37)
440. That he who, in error, makes unlawful use of sacred things, shall make
restitution of the value of his trespass and add a fifth (Lev. 5:16)
441. To remove the ashes from the altar (Lev. 6:3)
442. To keep fire always burning on the altar of the burnt-offering (Lev.
6:6)
443. Not to extinguish the fire on the altar (Lev. 6:6)
444. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with disheveled hair (Lev. 10:6)
445. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with torn garments (Lev.
10:6)
446. That the kohein shall not leave the Courtyard of the Sanctuary,
during service (Lev. 10:7)
447. That an intoxicated person shall not enter the Sanctuary nor give
decisions in matters of the Law (Lev. 10:9-11)
448. To revere the Sanctuary (Lev. 19:30) (today, this applies to
synagogues)
449. That when the Ark is carried, it should be carried on the shoulder
(Num. 7:9)
450. To observe the second Passover (Num. 9:11)
451. To eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb on it, with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs (Num. 9:11)
452. Not to leave any flesh of the Paschal lamb brought on the second
Passover until the morning (Num. 9:12)
453. Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb brought on the second
Passover (Num. 9:12)
454. To sound the trumpets at the offering of sacrifices and in times of
trouble (Num. 10:9-10)
455. To watch over the edifice continually (Num. 18:2)
456. Not to allow the Sanctuary to remain unwatched (Num. 18:5)
457. 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 (Lev. 5:15-19)
458. Not to destroy anything of the Sanctuary, of synagogues, or of
houses of study, nor erase the holy names (of God); nor may sacred
scriptures be destroyed (Deut. 12:2-4)
Sacrifices and Offerings
459. To sanctify the firstling of clean cattle and offer it up (Ex. 13:2;Deut.
15:19)
460. To slay the Paschal lamb (Ex. 12:6)
461. To eat the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice on the night of the fifteenth of
Nissan (Ex. 12:8)
462. Not to eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb raw or sodden (Ex. 12:9)
463. Not to leave any portion of the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice until the
morning unconsumed (Ex. 12:10)
464. Not to give the flesh of the Paschal lamb to an Israelite who had
become an apostate (Ex. 12:43)
465. Not to give flesh of the Paschal lamb to a stranger who lives among
you to eat (Ex. 12:45)
466. Not to take any of the flesh of the Paschal lamb from the company's
place of assembly (Ex. 12:46)
467. Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb (Ex. 12:46)
468. That the uncircumcised shall not eat of the flesh of the Paschal lamb
(Ex. 12:48)
469. Not to slaughter the Paschal lamb while there is leaven in the
home (Ex. 23:18; Ex. 24:25)
470. 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 (Ex. 23:18;
Ex. 24:25)
471. Not to go up to the Sanctuary for the festival without bringing an
offering (Ex. 23:15)
472. To bring the first fruits to the Sanctuary (Ex. 23:19)
473. That the flesh of a sin-offering and guilt-offering shall be eaten (Ex.
29:33)
474. That one not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat the flesh of the holy
sacrifices (Ex. 29:33)
475. To observe the procedure of the burnt-offering (Lev. 1:3)
476. To observe the procedure of the meal-offering (Lev. 2:1)
477. Not to offer up leaven or honey (Lev. 2:11)
478. That every sacrifice be salted (Lev. 2:13)
479. Not to offer up any offering unsalted (Lev. 2:13)
480. That the Court of Judgment shall offer up a sacrifice if they have
erred in a judicial pronouncement (Lev. 4:13)
481. That an individual shall bring a sin-offering if he has sinned in error
by committing a transgression (Lev. 4:27-28)
482. To offer a sacrifice of varying value in accordance with one's means
(Lev. 5:7)
483. Not to sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin-offering
(Lev. 5:8)
484. Not to put olive oil in a sin-offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
485. Not to put frankincense on a sin-offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
486. 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. (Lev.
5:17-19)
487. That the remainder of the meal offerings shall be eaten (Lev. 6:9)
488. Not to allow the remainder of the meal offerings to become leavened
(Lev. 6:10)
489. That the High Priest [Heb. Kohein] shall offer a meal offering daily
(Lev. 6:13)
490. Not to eat of the meal offering brought by Aaron and his sons
(Lev. 6:16)
491. To observe the procedure of the sin-offering (Lev. 6:18)
492. Not to eat of the flesh of sin offerings, the blood of which is brought
within the Sanctuary and sprinkled towards the Veil (Lev. 6:23)
493. To observe the procedure of the guilt-offering (Lev. 7:1)
494. To observe the procedure of the peace-offering (Lev. 7:11)
495. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has remained over (Lev. 7:17)
496. Not to eat of sacrifices that are eaten beyond the appointed time for
eating them (Lev. 7:18)
497. Not to eat of holy things that have become unclean (Lev. 7:19)
498. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has become unclean (Lev.
7:19)
499. That a person who is unclean shall not eat of things that are holy
(Lev. 7:20)
500. A Priest'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 (Lev. 10:14, Lev. 22:12)
501. That a woman after childbirth shall bring an offering when she is
clean (Lev. 12:6)
502. That the leper shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed (Lev. 14:10)
503. That a man having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed
of his issue (Lev. 15:13-15)
504. That a woman having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after she is
cleansed of her issue (Lev. 15:28-30) |
505. To observe, on Yom Kippur, the service appointed for that day,
regarding the sacrifice, confessions, sending away of the scapegoat, etc.
(Lev. 16:3-34)
506. Not to slaughter beasts set apart for sacrifices outside (the
Sanctuary) (Lev. 17:3-4)
507. Not to eat flesh of a sacrifice that has been left over (beyond the time
appointed for its consumption) (Lev. 19:8)
508. Not to sanctify blemished cattle for sacrifice on the altar (Lev. 22:20)
This text prohibits such beasts being set apart for sacrifice on the altar
509. That every animal offered up shall be without blemish (Lev. 22:21)
510. Not to inflict a blemish on cattle set apart for sacrifice (Lev. 22:21)
511. Not to slaughter blemished cattle as sacrifices (Lev. 22:22)
512. Not to burn the limbs of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev. 22:22)
513. Not to sprinkle the blood of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev.
22:24)
514. Not to offer up a blemished beast that comes from non-Israelites
(Lev. 22:25)
515. That sacrifices of cattle can only take place when they are at least
eight days old (Lev. 22:27)
516. Not to leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering until the morning
(Lev. 22:30)
517. To offer up the meal-offering of the Omer on the morrow after the
first day of Passover, together with one lamb (Lev. 23:10)
518. Not to eat bread made of new grain before the Omer of barley has
been offered up on the second day of Passover (Lev. 23:14)
519. Not to eat roasted grain of the new produce before that time (Lev. 23:14)
520. Not to eat fresh ears of the new grain before that time (Lev. 23:14)
521. To bring on wave loaves of bread together with the sacrifices which are
then offered up in connection with the loaves [Pentecost feast] (Lev. 23:17-
20)
522. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Passover (Lev. 23:36)
523. That one who vows to the Lord the monetary value of a person shall
pay the amount appointed in the Scriptural portion (Lev. 27:2-8)
524. If a beast is exchanged for one that had been set apart as an
offering, both become sacred (Lev. 27:10)
525. Not to exchange a beast set aside for sacrifice (Lev. 27:10)
526. That one who vows to the Lord the monetary value of an unclean
beast shall pay its value (Lev. 27:11-13)
527. That one who vows the value of a his house shall pay according to the
appraisal of the Priest (Lev. 27:11-13)
528. That one who sanctifies to the Lord a portion of his field shall pay
according to the estimation appointed in the Scriptural portion (Lev.
27:16-24)
529. Not to transfer a beast set apart for sacrifice from one class of
sacrifices to another (Lev. 27:26)
530. To decide in regard to dedicated property as to which is sacred to the
Lord and which belongs to the Priest (Lev. 27:28)
531. Not to sell a field devoted to the Lord (Lev. 27:28)
532. Not to redeem a field devoted to the Lord (Lev. 27:28)
533. To make confession before the Lord of any sin that one has
committed, when bringing a sacrifice and at other times (Num. 5:6-7)
534. Not to put olive oil in the meal-offering of a woman suspected of
adultery
(Num. 5:15)
535. Not to put frankincense on it (Num. 5:15)
536. To offer up the regular sacrifices daily (two lambs as burnt offerings)
(Num. 28:3)
537. To offer up an additional sacrifice every Sabbath (two lambs) (Num.
28:9)
538. To offer up an additional sacrifice every New Moon (Num. 28:11)
539. To bring an additional offering on the day of the first fruits
[Pentecost]
(Num. 28:26-27)
540. To offer up an additional sacrifice on [Feast of Trumpets] or Rosh
Hashanah (Num. 29:1-6)
541. To offer up an additional sacrifice on the day of Atonement or Yom
Kippur (Num. 29:7-8)
542. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Feast of Tabernacles [Heb.
Sukkot] (Num. 29:12-34)
543. To offer up an additional offering on the eighth day after the feast of
Tabernacles called (Heb. Shemini Atzeret), which is a festival by itself
(Num. 29:35-38) This eighth day is an anticipation of the New Testament
Sabbath which would be instituted on the first day of the week, which is also
the eighth day.
544. To bring all offerings, whether obligatory or freewill, on the first
festival after these were incurred (Deut. 12:5-6)
545. Not to offer up sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary) (Deut. 12:13)
546. To offer all sacrifices in the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:14)
547. To redeem cattle set apart for sacrifices that contracted disqualifying
blemishes, after which they may be eaten by anyone. (Deut. 12:15)
548. Not to eat of the unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem
(Deut. 12:17)
549. Not to eat the flesh of the burnt-offering (Deut. 12:17). This is a
Prohibition applying to every trespasser, not to enjoy any of the holy
things.
550. That the sons of Aaron [i. e. his descendents] shall not eat the flesh of
the sin-offering or guilt-offering outside the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary)
(Deut. 12:17)
551. 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), (Deut. 12:17)
552. That the Priest shall not eat the first-fruits before they are set down
in the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary) (Deut. 12:17)
553. To take trouble to bring sacrifices to the Sanctuary from places
outside the land of Israel (Deut. 12:26)
554. Not to eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that have been
rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish (Deut.
14:3)
555. Not to do work with cattle set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15:19)
556. Not to shear beasts set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15:19)
557. Not to leave any portion of the festival offering brought on the
fourteenth of Nissan unto the third day (Deut. 16:4)
558. Not to offer up a beast that has a temporary blemish (Deut. 17:1)
559. Not to bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog
(apparently a euphemism for sodomy) (Deut. 23:19)
560. To read the portion prescribed on bringing the first fruits (Deut. 26:5-
10)
Ritual Purity and Impurity
561. That eight species of creeping things defile by contact (Lev. 11:29-30)
562. That foods become defiled by contact with unclean things
(Lev. 11:34)
563. That anyone who touches the carcass of a beast that died of itself
shall be unclean (Lev. 11:39)
564. That a lying-in woman is unclean like a menstruating woman (in
terms of uncleanness) (Lev. 12:2-5)
565. That a leper is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:2-46)
566. That the leper shall be universally recognized as such by the
prescribed marks So too, all other unclean persons should declare
themselves as such (Lev. 13:45)
567. That a leprous garment is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:47-49)
568. That a leprous house defiles (Lev. 14:34-46)
569. That a man, having a running issue, defiles (Lev. 15:1-15)
570. That the seed of copulation defiles (Lev. 15:16)
571. That purification from all kinds of defilement shall be effected by
ceremonial washing (Lev. 15:16)
572. That a menstruating woman is unclean and defiles others (Lev. 15:19-24)
573. That a woman, having a running issue, defiles (Lev. 15:25-27)
574. To carry out the ordinance of the Red Heifer so that its ashes will
always be available (Num. 19:9)
575. That a corpse defiles (Num. 19:11-16)
576. That the waters of separation defile one who is clean, and cleanse the
unclean from pollution by a dead body (Num. 19:19-22)
Lepers and Leprosy
577. Not to drove off the hair of the scall (Lev. 13:33)
578. 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 (Lev. 14:1-7)
579. That the leper shall shave all his hair (Lev. 14:9)
580. Not to pluck out the marks of leprosy (Deut. 24:8)
The King
581. Not to curse a ruler, that is, the King in the land of Israel (Ex. 22:27)
582. To appoint a king (Deut. 17:15)
583. Not to appoint as ruler over Israel, one who comes from non-
Israelites (Deut. 17:15)
584. That the King shall not acquire an excessive number of horses (Deut.
17:16)
585. That the King shall not take an excessive number of wives (Deut.
17:17)
586. That he shall not accumulate an excessive quantity of gold and silver
(Deut. 17:17)
587. 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
(Deut. 17:18)
Nazarites
588. 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 (Num. 6:3)
589. That he shall not eat fresh grapes (Num. 6:3)
590. That he shall not eat dried grapes (raisins) (Num. 6:3)
591. That he shall not eat the kernels of the grapes (Num. 6:4)
592. That he shall not eat of the skins of the grapes (Num. 6:4)
593. That the Nazarite shall permit his hair to grow (Num. 6:5)
594. That the Nazarite shall not cut his hair (Num. 6:5)
595. That he shall not enter any covered structure where there is a dead
body (Num. 6:6)
596. That a Nazarite shall not defile himself for any dead person (by being in
the presence of the corpse) (Num. 6:7)
597. 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 (Num. 6:9)
Wars
598. That those engaged in warfare shall not fear their enemies nor be
panic-stricken by them during battle (Deut. 3:22, 7:21,20:3)
599. To anoint a special Priest (to speak to the soldiers) in a war (Deut.
20:2) This is today's equivalent to a military chaplain.
600. In a permissive war (as distinguished from obligatory ones), to
observe the procedure prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 20:10)
601. Not to keep alive any individual of the seven Canaanite nations (Deut.
20:16)
602. To exterminate the seven Canaanite nations from the land of Israel
(Deut. 20:17)
603. Not to destroy fruit trees (wantonly or in warfare) (Deut. 20:19-20)
604. To deal with a beautiful woman taken captive in war in the manner
prescribed in the Torah (Deut. 21:10-14)
605. Not to sell a beautiful woman, (taken captive in war) (Deut. 21:14)
606. Not to degrade a beautiful woman (taken captive in war) to the
condition of a bondwoman (Deut. 21:14)
607. Not to offer peace to the Ammonites and the Moabites before waging
war on them, as should be done to other nations (Deut. 23:7)
608. That anyone who is unclean shall not enter the Camp of the Levites
(Deut. 23:11)
609. To have a place outside the camp for sanitary purposes (Deut. 23:13)
610. To keep that place sanitary (Deut. 23:14-15)
611. Always to remember what Amalek did (Deut. 25:17)
612. That the evil done to us by Amalek shall not be forgotten
(Deut. 25:19)
613. To destroy the seed of Amalek (Deut. 25:19)
Pentateuch
The Pentateuch is simply the first 5 books of the Bible, often referred to as
the Books of Moses.
Genesis - Exodus - Leviticus - Numbers – Deuteronomy
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