613 Jewish commandments (mitzvot in Hebrew) extracted from the Old Testament.
1. To know there is a God. (Exodus 20:2) 2. To have not other gods. (Exodus 20:3) 3. To know that He is one. (Deuteronomy 6:4) 4. To love Him. (Deuteronomy 6:5) 5. To fear Him. (Deuteronomy 10:20) 6. To sanctify His Name. (Leviticus 22:32) 7. Not to profane His Name. (Leviticus 22:32) 8. To worship Him as He has ordered and not destroy holy objects. (Deuteronomy 12:4) 9. To listen to the true prophet. (Deuteronomy 18:15) 10. Not to test the prophet. (Deuteronomy 6:16) 11. To emulate His ways. (Deuteronomy 28:9) 12. To be with those who only worship Him. (Deuteronomy 10:20) 13. To love your neighbor as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18) 14. To love converts. (Deuteronomy 10:19) 15. Not to hate your brother in your heart. (Leviticus 19:17) 16. To reprove your brother when necessary. (Leviticus 19:17) 17. Not to embarrass others. (Leviticus 19:17) 18. Not to oppress the weak. (Exodus 22:21) 19. Not to slander. (Leviticus 19:16) 20. Not to take revenge. (Leviticus 19:18) 21. Not to bear a grudge. (Leviticus 19:18) 22. Teach Torah to your children. (Deuteronomy 6:7) 23. To respect and defer to the elders. (Leviticus 19:32) 24. Do not turn to the ways of idol worship. (Leviticus 19:4) 25. Let the fringes on your clothes remind you to have pure conduct. (Numbers 15:39) 26. Not to blaspheme or curse a judge. (Exodus 22:27) 27. Not to worship idols. (Exodus 20:5) 28. Not to bow down to idols. (Exodus 20:5) 29. Not to make an idol. (Exodus 20:4) 30. Not to make or cast an image. (Leviticus 19:4) 31. Not to make gods of silver or gold. (Exodus 20:20) 32. Not to turn a people to idolatry. (Exodus 23:13) 33. To destroy a city that has turned to idol worship. (Deuteronomy 13:17) 34. Not to rebuild that city. (Deuteronomy 13:17) 35. Not to retain any benefit from that city. (Deuteronomy 13:18) 36. Not to missionize a person to idol worship. (Deuteronomy 13:12) 37. Not to love the missionary. (Deuteronomy 13:9) 38. Not to stop hating him. (Deuteronomy 13:9) 39. Not to save him. (Deuteronomy 13:9) 40. Not to speak in his defense. (Deuteronomy 13:9) 41. Not to refrain from incriminating him. (Deuteronomy 13:9) 42. Not to prophesize in idolatry. (Deuteronomy 18:20) 43. To ignore the false prophet. (Deuteronomy 13:4) 44. Not to prophesize falsely in God's name. (Deuteronomy 18:20) 45. Not to fear killing a false prophet. (Deuteronomy 18:22) 46. Never swear in the name of an idol. (Exodus 23:13) 47. Not to perform as or acknowledge those who purport to channel spirits. (Leviticus 19:31) 48. Not to perform as or consult fortunetellers. (Leviticus 19:31) 49. Not to burn your children in a sacrificial fire to Molech. (Leviticus 18:21) 50. Not to erect a stone pillar in a place of public worship. (Deuteronomy 16:22) 51. Not to erect an idol or bow down on a smooth stone for worship. (Leviticus 26:1) 52. Not to plant a tree as a sacred pole. (Deuteronomy 16:21) 53. Destroy idols, their accessories, and the places where they were worshipped. (Deuteronomy 12:2) 54. Do not derive benefit from idols or bring abominations home. (Deuteronomy 7:26) 55. Do not derive benefit from the gold and silver accessories of idols. (Deuteronomy 7:25) 56. Make no covenant with Canaanites or their gods. (Deuteronomy 7:2) 57. Show them no favor. (Deuteronomy 7:2) 58. Not to let them dwell in your land. (Exodus 23:33) 59. Not to imitate their customs and clothing. (Leviticus 20:23) 60. Not to be superstitious. (Leviticus 19:26) 61. To not self-induce a trance to foresee events or tolerate soothsayers. (Deuteronomy 18:10) 62. Not to engage in astrology. (Leviticus 19:26) 63. Not to say incantations or cast spells. (Deuteronomy 18:11) 64. Not to attempt contacting the dead. (Deuteronomy 18:11) 65. Not to consult with mediums. (Deuteronomy 18:11) 66. Not to converse with wizards. (Deuteronomy 18:11) 67. Not to do sorcery. (Deuteronomy 18:10) 68. To not cut your hair at the temples. (Leviticus 19:27) 69. To not shave your beard. (Leviticus 19:27) 70. Men must not wear women's clothes. (Deuteronomy 22:5) 71. Women must not wear men's clothes. (Deuteronomy 22:5) 72. Not to tattoo your skin. (Leviticus 19:28) 73. Not to tear your skin for idolatry or mourning. (Deuteronomy 14:1) 74. Not to shave your head in mourning. (Deuteronomy 14:1) 75. Wrongdoers must correct their ways and confess before God. (Numbers 5:7) 76. Recite the central prayers twice daily and always study Torah, wherever you are. (Deuteronomy 6:7) 77. Serve God with prayer. (Exodus 23:25) 78. The priests, who are the sons of Aaron, must bless the nation. (Numbers 6:23) 79. To wear phylacteries so the laws will be a pendant on your forehead. (Deuteronomy 6:8) 80. To bind phylacteries so that the laws will be a sign on the arm. (Deuteronomy 6:8) 81. To put up a Mezuzah so that the laws will be on the doorposts of your house. (Deuteronomy 6:9) 82. Each male must write a Torah scroll. (Deuteronomy 31:19) 83. The king must write a second Torah scroll. (Deuteronomy 17:18) 84. To have fringes on the corners of your garments. (Numbers 15:38) 85. Bless God after meals. (Deuteronomy 8:10) 86. To circumcise every male on the eighth day. (Leviticus 12:3) 87. To rest on the seventh day. (Exodus 23:12) 88. Not to do prohibited work on the seventh day. (Exodus 20:10) 89. The court must not inflict punishment on the Sabbath. (Exodus 35:3) 90. Stay near home and within city bounds on the Sabbath. (Exodus 16:29) 91. To remember and sanctify the Sabbath by blessing wine and lighting the conclusionary candle. (Exodus 20:8) 92. To perform self-denial and to rest from exertion on Yom Kippur. (Leviticus 23:32) 93. Not to do prohibited labor. (Leviticus 23:31) 94. To afflict yourself. (Leviticus 16:29) 95. Not to eat or drink. (Leviticus 23:29) 96. To rest on the first day of Passover. (Leviticus 23:8) 97. To do no work on the first day of Passover. (Leviticus 23:8) 98. To rest on the seventh day of Passover. (Leviticus 23:8) 99. To do no work on the seventh day of Passover. (Leviticus 23:8) 100. To rest on the first day of Pentecost. (Leviticus 23:21) 101. To do no work on the first day of Pentecost. (Leviticus 23:21) 102. To rest on the New Year (the first day of the seventh month). (Leviticus 23:24) 103. To do no work on Rosh Hashana, the New Year. (Leviticus 23:25) 104. To rest on the first day of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths. (Leviticus 23:35) 105. The first day of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is sacred. Do no work. (Leviticus 23:35) 106. To rest on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths, Shimini Atzeret. (Leviticus 23:36) 107. To do no work on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths. (Leviticus 23:36) 108. To not eat leaven past noon on the day of Passover. (Deuteronomy 16:3) 109. To destroy all leaven on Passover. (Exodus 12:15) 110. Not to eat leaven all seven days of Passover. (Exodus 13:3) 111. Not to eat anything containing leaven during Passover. (Exodus 12:20) 112. No leaven shall be found in your domain during Passover. (Exodus 13:7) 113. Not to find any leaven in your house all seven days of Passover. (Exodus 12:19) 114. To eat matzoh on the first night of Passover. (Exodus 12:18) 115. On that night to explain the meaning of Passover. (Exodus 13:8) 116. To hear the Shofar, the ram's horn trumpet, on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month (Rosh Hashanah). (Numbers 29:1) 117. To dwell in a Sukka (booth) for the seven days of the festival. (Leviticus 23:42) 118. To take up a Lulav (palm branch) and an Etrog (citron). (Leviticus 23:40) 119. Families shall pay an annual half-shekel temple tax. (Exodus 30:13) 120. The courts must calculate the day on which the new month begins. (Exodus 12:2) 121. To afflict and cry out (blow the trumpets) before God in times of catastrophe. (Numbers 10:9) 122. A man should contractually marry a woman before living with her. (Deuteronomy 24:1) 123. Not to have relations with women who are not acquired thus. (An Israelite man or woman cannot be a prostitute.) (Deuteronomy 23:18) 124. Not to withhold food, clothing, and relations from your wife. (Exodus 21:10) 125. To have children from her. (Genesis 1:28) 126. A divorced wife must receive a written bill of divorce. (Deuteronomy 24:1) 127. A man cannot remarry his divorced wife. (Deuteronomy 24:4) 128. To marry a childless brother's widow. (Deuteronomy 25:5) 129. To free a childless widow from the obligation to marry her brother-in-law. (Deuteronomy 25:9) 130. The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed. (Deuteronomy 25:5) 131. The court must fine one who seduces a maiden. (Exodus 22:15-16) 132. The rapist must marry the maiden. (Deuteronomy 22:29) 133. He must not divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:29) 134. The slanderer must remain married to his wife. (Deuteronomy 22:19) 135. He must not divorce her. (Deuteronomy 22:19) 136. To take procedures against a suspected adultress. (Numbers 5:30) 137. A jealous husband must take his wife to the priests and not put oil on her meal offering. (Numbers 5:15) 138. A suspected wife is to be accompanied by a meal offering that contains no frankincense. (Numbers 5:15) 139. Not to have relations with your mother. (Leviticus 18:7) 140. Not to have relations with your father's wife. (Leviticus 18:8) 141. Not to have relations with your sister. (Leviticus 18:9) 142. Not to have relations with your father's wife's daughter. (Leviticus 18:11) 143. Not to have relations with your son's daughter. (Leviticus 18:10) 144. Not to have relations with your daughter. (Leviticus 18:10) 145. Not to have relations with your daughter's daughter. (Leviticus 18:10) 146. Not to marry a woman and her daughter. (Leviticus 18:17) 147. Not to marry a woman and her son's daughter. (Leviticus 18:17) 148. Not to marry a woman and her daughter's daughter. (Leviticus 18:17) 149. Not to have relations with your father's sister. (Leviticus 18:12) 150. Not to have relations with your mother's sister. (Leviticus 18:13) 151. Not to have relations with your father's brother's wife (same father). (Leviticus 18:14) 152. Not to have relations with your son's wife. (Leviticus 18:15) 153. Not to have relations with your brother's wife (same father and/or mother). (Leviticus 18:16) 154. Not to have relations with your wife's sister. (Leviticus 18:18) 155. A man must not have relations with a beast. (Leviticus 18:23) 156. A woman must not have relations with a beast. (Leviticus 18:23) 157. Not to have homosexual relations. (Leviticus 18:22) 158. Not to have homosexual relations with your father. (Leviticus 18:7) 159. Not to have homosexual relations with your father's brother. (Leviticus 18:14) 160. Not to have relations with a married woman. (Leviticus 18:20) 161. Not to have relations with a menstrually unclean woman. (Leviticus 18:19) 162. Not to marry Gentiles. (Deuteronomy 7:3) 163. Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Jewish people. (Deuteronomy 23:4) 164. Don't abhor or keep third-generation Edomite and Egyptian converts from marrying into the Jewish nation. (Deuteronomy 23:8-9) 165. Not to abhor or refrain from marrying a third-generation Edomite or Egyptian convert. (Deuteronomy 23:8-9) 166. A bastard child cannot become an Israelite. (Deuteronomy 23:3) 167. A eunuch or sexually mutilated man may not enter into the community. (Deuteronomy 23:2) 168. Not to castrate any male (including animals). (Leviticus 22:24) 169. The High Priest must not marry a widow. (Leviticus 21:14) 170. The High Priest must not have relations with a widow. (Leviticus 21:14) 171. The High Priest must marry a virgin. (Leviticus 21:13) 172. A priest must not marry a divorcée. (Leviticus 21:7) 173. A priest may not marry a prostitute. (Leviticus 21:7) 174. A priest must not marry a defiled woman. (Leviticus 21:7) 175. Not to have pleasurable physical contact with any forbidden woman. (Leviticus 18:6) 176. To examine animals that are permitted as food. (Leviticus 11:2) 177. To be careful to eat only clean birds. (Deuteronomy 14:11) 178. To distinguish which sea creatures are fit to eat. (Leviticus 11:9) 179. To distinguish which winged insects may be eaten. (Leviticus 11:21) 180. Not to eat unclean animals. (Leviticus 11:4) 181. Not to eat forbidden birds. (Leviticus 11:13) 182. Not to eat sea creatures without fins and scales. (Leviticus 11:11) 183. Not to eat unclean flying insects. (Deuteronomy 14:19) 184. Small swarming insects and unclean creatures that crawl on land are forbidden as food. (Leviticus 11:41) 185. Not to eat maggots. (Leviticus 11:44) 186. Not to eat snakes, scorpions, and the worms found on the ground (after leaving the fruit). (Leviticus 11:42) 187. Not to eat creatures that live in water, other than fish. (Leviticus 11:43) 188. Not to eat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter. (Deuteronomy 14:21) 189. Not to eat an ox that was condemned to be stoned. (Exodus 21:28) 190. Not to eat meat of a mortally wounded animal. (Exodus 22:30) 191. Not to eat a limb torn off from a living creature. (Deuteronomy 12:23) 192. Not to eat blood. (Leviticus 3:17) 193. Not to eat the fat of some clean animals. (Leviticus 3:17) 194. Not to eat the thigh muscle. (Genesis. 32:33) 195. Not to eat milk and meat cooked together. (Exodus 23:19) 196. Not to cook milk and meat together. (Exodus 34:26) 197. Not to eat bread from the new grain harvest. (Leviticus 23:14) 198. Roasted grains must be offered before they are eaten. (Leviticus 23:14) 199. Not to eat ripe grains from the new grain harvest before they are made as an offering. (Leviticus 23:14) 200. Not to eat the fruit of a tree for the first three years. (Leviticus 19:23) 201. At the risk of forfeiture, not to eat of diverse seeds planted in a vineyard. (Deuteronomy 22:9) 202. No one may eat produce for an offering, or untithed food. (Leviticus 22:15) 203. Not to eat or drink anything offered as sacrifice to an idol. (Deuteronomy 32:38) 204. To ritually slaughter an animal before eating it. (Deuteronomy 12:21) 205. Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day. (Leviticus 22:28) 206. The blood of a slaughtered wild animal must be covered with dirt. (Leviticus 17:13) 207. Not to take a nesting bird with her eggs and young. (Deuteronomy 22:6) 208. To release the mother bird if you did not take her. (Deuteronomy 22:7) 209. Not to swear falsely in God's Name. (Leviticus 19:12) 210. Not to take God's Name in vain. (Exodus 20:7) 211. To not lie or deal falsely, or deny that something of value was left in your possession. (Leviticus 19:11) 212. To not swear falsely. (Leviticus 19:11) 213. To swear in God's Name only to confirm the truth, when deemed necessary by the courts. (Deuteronomy 10:20) 214. To keep your promises and vows to God. (Deuteronomy 23:24) 215. Not to break oaths or vows. (Numbers 30:3) 216. To have vows and oaths annulled according to law. (Numbers 30:3) 217. The Nazirite must let his hair grow. (Numbers 6:5) 218. The Nazirite must not cut his hair. (Numbers 6:5) 219. The Nazirite must not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar. (Numbers 6:3) 220. The Nazirite must not eat fresh grapes. (Numbers 6:3) 221. The Nazirite must not eat raisins or drink anything steeped in grapes. (Numbers 6:3) 222. The Nazirite must not eat grape seeds. (Numbers 6:4) 223. The Nazirite must not eat grape skins or grapes dried on the vine. (Numbers 6:4) 224. A Nazirite may not enter where there is a dead person. (Numbers 6:6) 225. A Nazirite must not come in contact with the dead. (Numbers 6:7) 226. A Nazirite must shave his head after the completion of his vowed service. (Numbers 6:18) 227. To estimate the value of persons for whom offerings are paid. (Leviticus 27:2) 228. For priests to estimate the value of animal offerings. (Leviticus 27:12-13) 229. For priests to estimate the value of consecrated houses. (Leviticus 27:14) 230. To determine the redemption value of a vowed field. (Leviticus 27:16) 231. Fulfill the procedures of vowed possessions. (Leviticus 27:28) 232. Not to sell vowed possessions. (Leviticus 27:28) 233. Not to redeem any vowed possessions. (Leviticus 27:28) 234. Not to plant diverse seeds together. (Leviticus 19:19) 235. Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard. (Deuteronomy 22:9) 236. Not to crossbreed animals. (Leviticus 19:19) 237. Not to work different animals together. (Deuteronomy 22:10) 238. Not to wear cloth woven of both wool and linen. (Deuteronomy 22:11) 239. No to reap your harvest to the edge of the field, but leave a corner uncut for the poor. (Leviticus 19:10) 240. Not to reap that corner but to leave fruit and grain for the poor. (Leviticus 19:9) 241. To leave gleanings. (Leviticus 19:9) 242. Not to gather the gleanings. (Leviticus 19:9) 243. Not to pick your vineyard bare. (Leviticus 19:10) 244. Not to gather the gleanings of a vineyard. (Leviticus 19:10) 245. To not gather the fallen fruit of the vineyard. (Leviticus 19:10) 246. Not to pick the unformed clusters of grapes. (Leviticus 19:10) 247. To leave forgotten sheaves in the field or leave a sheaf for the poor. (Deuteronomy 24:19) 248. Not to retrieve them but leave them for the widow, alien, and orphan. (Deuteronomy 24:19) 249. To separate the tithe for the poor. (Deuteronomy 14:28) 250. To give charity. (Deuteronomy 15:11) 251. Not to withhold charity from those in need. (Deuteronomy 15:7) 252. To set aside a tithed portion of the offerings for the priesthood). (Deuteronomy 18:4) 253. The Levite must be tithed on his tithe. (Numbers 18:26) 254. To not delay your agricultural offerings. (Exodus 22:28) 255. A layperson may not eat from a sacred donation. (Leviticus 22:10) 256. A servant of a priest may not eat from a sacred donation. (Leviticus 22:10) 257. An uncircumcised priest may not eat from a sacred donation. (Exodus 12:48) 258. A priest in a state of impurity may not eat from a sacred donation. (Leviticus 22:4) 259. A priest's daughter married to a layman may not eat from a sacred donation. (Leviticus 22:12) 260. Levites are to receive earmarked tithes each planting year. (Numbers 18:24) 261. To set aside the Second Tithe. (Deuteronomy 14:22) 262. Not to spend its redemption value on anything other than food, drink, or ointment. (Deuteronomy 26:14) 263. Not to eat from the Tithe while unclean. (Deuteronomy 26:14) 264. A mourner must not eat the Second Tithe on the first day of mourning. (Deuteronomy 26:14) 265. Not to eat grains from the Second Tithe outside Jerusalem. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 266. Not to consume Second-Tithe wine products outside Jerusalem. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 267. Not to consume Second-Tithe oil outside Jerusalem. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 268. The fourth-year crops must be totally for holy purposes. (Leviticus 19:24) 269. To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh years. (Deuteronomy 26:13) 270. To bring the first fruits into the temple. (Exodus 23:19) 271. The priests must not eat the first fruits outside Jerusalem. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 272. To read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation. (Deuteronomy 26:5) 273. When baking, set aside some dough for the priesthood. (Numbers 15:20) 274. To give the shoulder, two cheeks, and the stomach of a sacrificed animal to the priesthood. (Deuteronomy 18:3) 275. To give the first shearing of sheep to the priesthood. (Deuteronomy 18:4) 276. A father must redeem the firstborn son and give the money to the priesthood. (Numbers 18:15) 277. To redeem each firstborn donkey with a lamb given to the priesthood. (Exodus 13:13) 278. To break the neck of the firstborn donkey if the owner doesn't redeem it. (Exodus 13:13) 279. To rest the land during the seventh year and do no work, to allow for the rejuvenation of the earth. (Exodus 34:21) 280. Not to work the land during the seventh year. (Leviticus 25:4) 281. Not to work with trees (to produce fruit) during the seventh year. (Leviticus 25:4) 282. Not to harvest wild crops in the seventh year. (Leviticus 25:5) 283. Not to systematically pick fruit in the seventh year. (Leviticus 25:5) 284. To leave untouched all produce that grew in the seventh year. (Exodus 23:11) 285. To relax all loans in the seventh year. (Deuteronomy 15:3) 286. Not to pressure the debtor in the seventh year. (Deuteronomy 15:2) 287. Not to refrain from lending in the year of remission for fear of monetary loss. (Deuteronomy 15:9) 288. The court must count and determine the year of the Jubilee. (Leviticus 25:8) 289. The court must sanctify the fiftieth year. (Leviticus 25:10) 290. To sound the ram's horn on Yom Kippur of the Jubilee year, to free the slaves. (Leviticus 25:9) 291. Not to work the land during the fiftieth year. (Leviticus 25:11) 292. Not to reap or harvest in the fiftieth year. (Leviticus 25:11) 293. Not to pick grapes in the usual way and to eat only directly from the vine in the fiftieth year. (Leviticus 25:11) 294. Follow the laws of sold and family properties. (Leviticus 25:24) 295. Not to sell land (in Israel) in perpetuity. (Leviticus 25:23) 296. To follow the laws pertaining to houses in walled cities. (Leviticus 25:29) 297. The Levites have no inheritance or allotment but will live in cities. (Deuteronomy 18:2) 298. Levites will not partake in the spoils of war. (Deuteronomy 18:1) 299. Levites are to be given cities and the surrounding fields. (Numbers 35:2) 300. Not to sell the fields of the Levites, which will remain their possession before and after the Jubilee year. (Leviticus 25:34) 301. To build a Sanctuary. (Exodus 25:8) 302. Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal. (Exodus 20:22) 303. Not to climb steps to the altar. (Exodus 20:23) 304. To show reverence for the temple. (Leviticus 19:30) 305. Levites shall guard the temple area. (Numbers 18:3) 306. Not to leave the temple unguarded. (Numbers 18:5) 307. To blend the anointing oil. (Exodus 30:31) 308. Not to duplicate the formula for the anointing oil. (Exodus 30:32) 309. Not to anoint anyone who isn't a priest or a king with it. (Exodus 30:32) 310. Not to replicate the incense formula. (Exodus 30:37) 311. Not to burn anything on the altar besides incense. (Exodus 30:9) 312. The Levites carry the ark on their shoulders. (Numbers 7:9) 313. Not to remove the poles from the ark. (Exodus 25:15) 314. The Levites must work in the temple. (Numbers 18:23) 315. There are specified duties for the Levites. (Numbers 18:3) 316. The priest will be dedicated and must be treated as sacred. (Leviticus 21:8) 317. The priestly work shifts must be equal during holidays. (Deuteronomy 18:6-8) 318. The priests must wear their priestly garments during the service. (Exodus 28:2) 319. The priestly garments must not be torn. (Exodus 28:32) 320. The breastplate must not be loosened from the ephod. (Exodus 28:28) 321. A priest must not enter the temple when drunk. (Leviticus 10:9) 322. A priest must not enter the temple with unkempt hair. (Leviticus 10:6) 323. A priest must not enter the temple with torn clothes. (Leviticus 10:6) 324. A priest must not enter the sanctuary for no reason. (Leviticus 16:2) 325. A priest must not leave the temple during the service. (Leviticus 10:7) 326. To send the impure from the temple. (Numbers 5:2) 327. Impure persons must not enter the temple. (Numbers 5:3) 328. Unclean persons must not enter the Temple Mount area. (Deuteronomy 23:11) 329. Unclean priests cannot do temple service. (Leviticus 22:2) 330. An impure priest, after immersion, must not return to service until after sundown. (Leviticus 21:6) 331. A priest must wash his hands and feet before ministering. (Exodus 30:19) 332. A blemished priest must not enter the temple. (Leviticus 21:23) 333. A blemished priest must not serve. (Leviticus 21:17) 334. A temporarily blemished priest must not serve. (Leviticus 21:18) 335. A non-priest must not serve. (Numbers 18:4) 336. Blemished animals are unacceptable as offerings. (Leviticus 22:21) 337. Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar. (Leviticus 22:20) 338. An animal with a discharge must not be slaughtered. (Leviticus 22:22) 339. Not to sprinkle the blood of a disabled animal. (Leviticus 22:24) 340. Not to burn the fat of a defective animal. (Leviticus 22:22) 341. Not to offer an animal with a temporary blemish. (Deuteronomy 17:1) 342. Not to accept defective offerings even from foreigners. (Leviticus 22:25) 343. Not to inflict wounds or commit damage upon dedicated animals. (Leviticus 22:21) 344. To redeem disqualified dedicated animals. (Deuteronomy 12:15) 345. To offer animals that are at least eight days old. (Leviticus 22:27) 346. Not to offer animals purchased with the fees of a harlot or an animal exchanged for a dog. (Deuteronomy 23:19) 347. Not to burn yeast or honey on the altar. (Leviticus 2:11) 348. To salt all sacrifices. (Leviticus 2:13) 349. Not to omit the salt from grain offerings. (Leviticus 2:13) 350. To follow the burnt offering procedures as written in the Torah. (Leviticus 1:3) 351. Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 352. To carry out the procedure for a sin offering. (Leviticus 6:18) 353. Not to eat the meat of a sin offering. (Leviticus 6:23) 354. The priest shall not cut off the head of a bird (sin) offering. (Leviticus 5:8) 355. To follow the procedures of the guilt offering. (Leviticus 7:1) 356. The priests must eat the sacrificed meat in the temple. (Exodus 29:33) 357. Priests must not eat the meat outside the temple. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 358. A non-priest must not eat the sacrificial meat. (Exodus 29:33) 359. To follow the procedure of the peace offering. (Leviticus 7:11) 360. Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 361. To bring meal offerings in the prescribed manner. (Leviticus 2:1) 362. Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers. (Leviticus 5:11) 363. Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers. (Leviticus 5:11) 364. Not to eat the cereal offering of the high priest. (Leviticus 6:16) 365. Not to bake meal offerings with leaven. (Leviticus 6:10) 366. The priests must eat the remains of the meal offerings. (Leviticus 6:9) 367. To bring all freewill offerings to the temple and rejoice. (Deuteronomy 12:5-6) 368. Not to withhold payment which fulfills a vow to God. (Deuteronomy 23:22) 369. To offer all sacrifices in the temple. (Deuteronomy 12:11) 370. To bring all votive offerings to the temple. (Deuteronomy 12:26) 371. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple. (Leviticus 17:4) 372. Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple. (Deuteronomy 12:13) 373. To offer two lambs every day. (Numbers 28:3) 374. To light a fire on the altar every day. (Leviticus 6:5) 375. Not to extinguish this fire. (Leviticus 6:5) 376. To remove the ashes from the altar every day. (Leviticus 6:3) 377. To burn incense every day. (Exodus 30:7) 378. To keep the light burning every day (in the candelabra). (Exodus 27:21) 379. The High Priest must bring a meal offering every day. (Leviticus 6:13) 380. To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on the Sabbath. (Numbers 28:9) 381. To make and present the showbread. (Exodus 25:30) 382. To bring additional offerings of the new moon. (Numbers 28:11) 383. To bring additional offerings on Passover. (Numbers 28:19) 384. To bring a wave offering from the meal of the new wheat. (Leviticus 23:10) 385. To count the seven weeks from the new wheat offering to Pentecost (Shavuot). (Leviticus 23:15) 386. To bring an additional offering on Shavuot (Pentecost). (Numbers 28:26) 387. To offer two loaves, which must accompany the above sacrifices. (Leviticus 23:18) 388. To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana, the New Year. (Numbers 29:2) 389. To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. (Numbers 29:8) 390. To bring additional offerings on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths. (Numbers 29:13) 391. To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret, the eighth day of the Feast of Booths. (Numbers 29:35) 392. Not to eat any unfit sacrifices. (Deuteronomy 14:3) 393. Not to eat sacrifices offered with improper intentions. (Leviticus 7:18) 394. To eat the Thanksgiving sacrifice on the day it was sacrificed. (Leviticus 22:30) 395. Not to eat leftover sacrifices. (Leviticus 19:8) 396. Not to eat from sacrifices that have become impure. (Leviticus 7:19) 397. An unclean person cannot eat from sacrifices. (Leviticus 7:20) 398. Sacrificial remains must be burned on the third day. (Leviticus 7:17) 399. Impure sacrifices must be burnt. (Leviticus 7:19) 400. To follow the priestly rituals of Yom Kippur. (Leviticus 16:3) 401. One who uses sacred property for personal use incurs a special penalty and sacrifice. (Leviticus 5:16) 402. Not to work consecrated animals. (Deuteronomy 15:19) 403. Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals. (Deuteronomy 15:19) 404. To slaughter the Paschal sacrifice at the specified time. (Exodus 12:6) 405. Not to slaughter the Paschal sacrifice while possessing leaven. (Exodus 23:18) 406. Not to leave the fat overnight. (Exodus 23:18) 407. To slaughter the second Paschal Lamb. (Numbers 9:11) 408. The Paschal Lamb is to be eaten with matzoh on the night it was slaughtered. (Exodus 12:8) 409. To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the fifteenth of Iyar. (Numbers 9:11) 410. To roast the Paschal Lamb and not eat it raw or boiled. (Exodus 12:9) 411. No part of the Paschal Lamb may be removed from the house. (Exodus 12:46) 412. An apostate must not eat from the Paschal Lamb. (Exodus 12:43) 413. A hired servant or traveler must not eat from the Paschal Lamb. (Exodus 12:45) 414. An uncircumcised male must not eat from the Paschal Lamb. (Exodus 12:48) 415. No bone of the Paschal Lamb shall be broken. (Exodus 12:46) 416. Not to break any bones from the second Paschal offering. (Numbers 9:12) 417. Not to leave any of the Lamb over until morning. (Exodus 12:10) 418. Not to leave the second Paschal meat until morning. (Numbers 9:12) 419. Eat the Passover meat entirely on the night it is offered. (Deuteronomy 16:4) 420. To be seen at the temple three times a year—Passover, Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks; and Sukkot, the Festival of Booths. (Deuteronomy 16:16) 421. To celebrate and bring a peace offering in pilgrimage on these three festivals. (Exodus 23:14) 422. To rejoice on these three festivals. (Deuteronomy 16:14) 423. Not to appear at the temple for annual festivals without offerings. (Deuteronomy 16:16) 424. Not to refrain from rejoicing with and giving gifts to the Levites. (Deuteronomy 12:19) 425. Every seven years, on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, to assemble all the people and read the law. (Deuteronomy 31:12) 426. To consecrate to God the firstborn of man and beast. (Exodus 13:12) 427. The priests must not eat of the unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem. (Deuteronomy 12:17) 428. The firstborn of clean animals cannot be redeemed. (Numbers 18:17) 429. Separate the tithe from the animals. (Leviticus 27:32) 430. Do not exchange a good animal for a bad for the tithe. (Leviticus 27:33) 431. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression. (Leviticus 4:27) 432. An unintentional sin requires a sin offering when discovered. (Leviticus 5:17-18) 433. A guilt offering is required when one deals deceitfully. (Leviticus 5:25) 434. For certain sins a wealthy person will offer an animal and the poor will offer doves, pigeons, or meal as prescribed. (Leviticus 5:7-11) 435. The court must bring an offering when it rules in error or when the community sins. (Leviticus 4:13) 436. A woman with an irregular discharge must bring an offering after she goes to the ritual bath. (Leviticus 15:28-29) 437. A woman who gives birth must bring an offering after she immerses in the ritual bath. (Leviticus 12:6) 438. A man who is cured of a chronic discharge must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath. (Leviticus 15:13-14) 439. One who is cured of a skin disease must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath. (Leviticus 14:10) 440. Not to substitute another beast for one scheduled for sacrifice. (Leviticus 27:10) 441. The new animal, along with the substituted one, retains consecration. (Leviticus 27:10) 442. Not to change consecrated animals (from one type of offering to another). (Leviticus 27:26) 443. Everyone under a roof with a corpse is unclean. (Numbers 19:14) 444. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer. (Numbers 19:9) 445. A clean person sprinkles water on those who are unclean. (Numbers 19:21) 446. The priest's role is governed by the law when dealing with matters of skin disease. (Leviticus 13:12) 447. The afflicted must not remove the signs of impurity. (Deuteronomy 24:8) 448. The afflicted must not shave signs of impurity in his hair. (Leviticus 13:33) 449. A skin-diseased person will tear his clothes, grow his hair long, and cry out, "unclean, unclean." (Leviticus 13:45) 450. Carry out the procedure for purifying the person with skin disease. (Leviticus 14:2) 451. The diseased person must shave off all his hair prior to purification. (Leviticus 14:9) 452. To discover when a leprous infection is on a garment. (Leviticus 13:47) 453. To discover when a house is infected by a skin disease. (Leviticus 14:35) 454. To observe the laws of menstrual impurity. (Leviticus 15:19) 455. To observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth. (Leviticus 12:2) 456. To observe the laws of impurity caused by an irregular discharge. (Leviticus 15:25) 457. To observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's chronic discharge. (Leviticus 15:3) 458. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with a dead animal. (Leviticus 11:39) 459. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with the eight (named) swarming creatures. (Leviticus 11:29) 460. Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission. (Leviticus 15:16) 461. Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods. (Leviticus 11:34) 462. Every impure person must immerse himself in a ritual bath to become pure. (Leviticus 15:16) 463. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox. (Exodus 21:28) 464. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating in another's field. (Exodus 22:4) 465. The court must judge the damages incurred by an open pit. (Exodus 21:33) 466. The court must judge the damages incurred by fire. (Exodus 22:5) 467. Not to steal money stealthily. (Leviticus 19:11) 468. The court must implement punitive measures against the thief. (Exodus 21:37) 469. Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate. (Leviticus 19:36) 470. Not to commit injustice with scales and weights. (Leviticus 19:35) 471. Not to possess inaccurate weights and scales even if they are not for use. (Deuteronomy 25:13) 472. Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone's property. (Deuteronomy 19:14) 473. Not to kidnap. (Exodus 20:13) 474. Not to rob openly. (Leviticus 19:13) 475. Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt. (Leviticus 19:13) 476. Not to covet and scheme to acquire another's possession. (Exodus 20:14) 477. Not to desire another's possession. (Deuteronomy 5:18) 478. Return the robbed object or its value. (Leviticus 5:23) 479. Not to ignore a lost object. (Deuteronomy 22:3) 480. Return the lost object. (Deuteronomy 22:1) 481. The court must implement laws against one who assaults another or damages another's property. (Exodus 21:18) 482. Not to murder. (Exodus 20:13) 483. Not to accept money to save a convicted murderer. (Numbers 35:31) 484. The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge. (Numbers 35:25) 485. Not to accept monetary restitution instead of sending the accidental murderer to, or releasing him from, a city of refuge. (Numbers 35:32) 486. Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial. (Numbers 35:12) 487. To save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer. (Deuteronomy 25:12) 488. Not to pity the pursuer. (Numbers 35:12) 489. Not to stand idly by if someone's life is in danger. (Leviticus 19:16) 490. Designate refuge cities and prepare routes of access. (Deuteronomy 19:3) 491. When a murdered person is found in open country and the murder is unsolved, break the neck of a calf by the river valley. (Deuteronomy 21:4) 492. Not to work that river valley or plant there. (Deuteronomy 21:4) 493. Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property. (Deuteronomy 22:8) 494. Make a guardrail around flat roofs. (Deuteronomy 22:8) 495. Not to put a stumbling block before the blind. (Leviticus 19:14) 496. Help another remove the load from a beast that can no longer carry it. (Exodus 23:5) 497. Help others load their beasts. (Deuteronomy 22:4) 498. Not to leave fallen beasts distraught with their burdens but help to load or unload. (Deuteronomy 22:4) 499. Buy and sell according to Torah law. (Leviticus 25:14) 500. Not to overcharge or underpay for an article. (Leviticus 25:14) 501. Not to insult or harm anybody with words. (Leviticus 25:17) 502. Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily. (Exodus 22:20) 503. Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words. (Exodus 22:20) 504. A Hebrew slave shall be released after six years. (Exodus 21:2) 505. Not to sell him as a slave is sold. (Leviticus 25:42) 506. Not to work the slave oppressively. (Leviticus 25:43) 507. Not to allow a foreigner to work the slave oppressively. (Leviticus 25:53) 508. Not to have the kinsman slave do menial slave labor. (Leviticus 25:39) 509. Give the slave gifts when he goes free. (Deuteronomy 15:14) 510. Not to send the freed slave away empty-handed. (Deuteronomy 15:13) 511. Redeem Jewish maidservants. (Exodus 21:8) 512. Betroth the Jewish maidservant. (Exodus 21:8) 513. The master cannot resell a female servant. (Exodus 21:8) 514. Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs. (Leviticus 25:46) 515. Not to extradite a slave who fled to (Biblical) Israel. (Deuteronomy 23:16) 516. Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge. (Deuteronomy 23:17) 517. The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard. (Exodus 22:9) 518. Pay wages on the day they were earned. (Deuteronomy 24:15) 519. Do not delay payment of wages past the agreed time. (Leviticus 19:13) 520. The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works. (Deuteronomy 23:25) 521. The worker must not eat while on hired time. (Deuteronomy 23:26) 522. The worker must not take more than he can eat. (Deuteronomy 23:25) 523. Not to muzzle an ox while plowing. (Deuteronomy 25:4) 524. The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower. (Exodus 22:13) 525. The courts must carry out the laws of the unpaid guard. (Exodus 22:6) 526. Lend without interest to the poor. (Exodus 22:24) 527. Not to press the poor for repayment. (Exodus 22:24) 528. Press the idolater for payment. (Deuteronomy 15:3) 529. The creditor must not forcibly take collateral. (Deuteronomy 24:10) 530. Return the collateral to the debtor when it is needed. (Deuteronomy 24:13) 531. Not to delay returning the collateral when it is needed. (Deuteronomy 24:12) 532. Not to demand collateral from a widow. (Deuteronomy 24:17) 533. Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food. (Deuteronomy 24:6) 534. Not to lend with interest within the community. (Leviticus 25:37) 535. Not to borrow with interest. (Deuteronomy 23:20) 536. Not to play any role in an interest loan. (Exodus 22:24) 537. Lend to, and borrow from, idolaters at interest. (Deuteronomy 23:21) 538. The court must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter or denier. (Exodus 22:8) 539. Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance. (Numbers 27:8) 540. Appoint judges. (Deuteronomy 16:18) 541. Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure. (Deuteronomy 1:17) 542. Decide by majority in case of disagreement. (Exodus 23:2) 543. The court must not execute through a majority of one, but at least a majority of two is required. (Exodus 23:2) 544. A judge who presents a case for acquittal must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases. (Exodus 23:2) 545. The court must carry out the death penalty of stoning. (Deuteronomy 22:24) 546. The court must carry out the death penalty of burning. (Leviticus 20:14) 547. The court must carry out the death penalty of the sword. (Exodus 21:20) 548. The court must carry out the death penalty of strangulation. (Leviticus 20:10) 549. The court must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry. (Deuteronomy 21:22) 550. Bury the executed on the day they were killed. (Deuteronomy 21:23) 551. Not to delay the burial overnight. (Deuteronomy 21:23) 552. The court must not let the sorcerer live. (Exodus 22:17) 553. The court must flog the wrongdoer. (Deuteronomy 25:2) 554. The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes. (Deuteronomy 25:3) 555. The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence. (Exodus 23:7) 556. The court must not punish anybody who was forced to commit a crime. (Deuteronomy 22:26) 557. The judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial. (Deuteronomy 19:13) 558. The judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial. (Leviticus 19:15) 559. The judge must not respect the great man at the trial. (Leviticus 19:15) 560. The judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor. (Exodus 23:6) 561. The judge must not pervert justice. (Leviticus 19:15) 562. The judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or an orphan. (Deuteronomy 24:17) 563. Judge righteously. (Leviticus 19:15) 564. The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment. (Deuteronomy 1:17) 565. Judges must not accept bribes. (Exodus 23:8) 566. Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present. (Exodus 23:1) 567. Not to curse judges. (Exodus 22:27) 568. Not to curse the head of state. (Exodus 22:27) 569. Not to curse a deaf person. (Leviticus 19:14) 570. Anyone who knows evidence must testify at a trial. (Leviticus 5:1) 571. Carefully interrogate the witness. (Deuteronomy 13:15) 572. A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes. (Numbers 35:30) 573. Not to accept testimony from a lone witness. (Deuteronomy 19:15) 574. Transgressors must not testify. (Exodus 23:1) 575. The litigant's relatives cannot testify. (Deuteronomy 24:16) 576. Not to testify falsely. (Exodus 20:13) 577. Do to the false witness what he tried to do to the defendant. (Deuteronomy 19:19) 578. Act according to the rulings of the high court. (Deuteronomy 17:11) 579. Not to deviate from a legal discussion. (Deuteronomy 17:11) 580. Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations. (Deuteronomy 13:1) 581. Not to diminish any commandments from the Torah, in whole or in part. (Deuteronomy 13:1) 582. Not to curse your father and mother. (Exodus 21:17) 583. Not to strike your father and mother. (Exodus 21:15) 584. Respect your father and mother. (Exodus 20:12) 585. Fear your father and mother. (Leviticus 19:3) 586. Not to behave like the rebellious son as described in the Torah. (Deuteronomy 21:20) 587. Mourn for relatives—even priests. (Leviticus 10:19) 588. The High Priest must not defile himself for any relatives. (Leviticus 21:11) 589. The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse. (Leviticus 21:11) 590. A priest must not defile himself for anyone other than his relatives. (Leviticus 21:1) 591. Appoint a king from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:15) 592. Not to appoint a convert. (Deuteronomy 17:15) 593. The king must not have too many wives. (Deuteronomy 17:17) 594. The king must not have too many horses. (Deuteronomy 17:16) 595. The king must not have too much silver and gold. (Deuteronomy 17:17) 596. Destroy the seven Canaanite nations. (Deuteronomy 20:17) 597. Not to let any of them remain alive. (Deuteronomy 20:16) 598. Blot out the memory of Amalek. (Deuteronomy 25:19) 599. Remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people. (Deuteronomy 25:17) 600. Not to forget their atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert. (Deuteronomy 25:19) 601. Not to dwell permanently in Egypt. (Deuteronomy 17:16) 602. Offer peace terms to the residents of a city under siege and treat them according to the Torah if they accept surrender terms. (Deuteronomy 20:10) 603. Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them. (Deuteronomy 23:7) 604. Not to destroy fruit trees even during a siege. (Deuteronomy 20:19) 605. Prepare latrines outside the camps. (Deuteronomy 23:13) 606. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with. (Deuteronomy 23:14) 607. Appoint a priest to speak to the soldiers during war. (Deuteronomy 20:2) 608. A newly married man who has built a home or planted a vineyard is exempt from the military to rejoice with his wife. (Deuteronomy 24:5) 609. Not to conscript or involve the newly married man in military or communal service. (Deuteronomy 24:5) 610. Not to panic and retreat during battle. (Deuteronomy 20:3) 611. Carry out the laws of captive women. (Deuteronomy 21:11) 612. Not to sell her into slavery. (Deuteronomy 21:14) 613. Not to retain her for servitude after having relations with her. (Deuteronomy 21:14)
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