The 613 Mitzvot - Commandments - of the Torah

God

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To love God (Deuteronomy 6:5)

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

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

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

 

Torah

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

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

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

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

 

Signs and Symbols

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Love & Brotherhood/Sisterhood

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

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

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

• Not to carry tales (Leviticus 19:16)

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

• Not to take revenge (Leviticus 19:18)

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

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

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

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

• To rebuke the sinner (Leviticus 19:17)

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

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

• Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deuteronomy 22:4) 1

 

The Poor

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

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

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

 

Gentiles

• To love the stranger (Deuteronomy 10:19)

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

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

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Marriage, Divorce and Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

2 Forbidden Sexual Relations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Times and Seasons

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

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

• To sanctify Shabbat (Exodus 20:8)

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

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

• To celebrate the festivals [Passover, Shavu'ot and Sukkot] (Exodus 23:14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To rest on Shavu'ot (Leviticus 23:21)

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

• To rest on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:24) 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To rest on the eighth day of Sukkot (Shemini Atzeret) (Leviticus 23:36) (CCA37).

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

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

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

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

 

Business Practices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To return a pledge to its owner (Deuteronomy 24:13) 4

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

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

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

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

 

Employees, Servants and Slaves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Vows, Oaths and Swearing

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

• Not to swear needlessly (Exodus 20:7)

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

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

• Not to break a vow (Numbers 30:3)

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

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

 

(YOU LEFT OFF EDIT HERE) The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Leviticus 25:11) 5

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

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

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

 

The Court and Judicial Procedure

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to curse a judge (Exodus 22:27)

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

• Not to testify falsely (Exodus 20:13)

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

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

• That the court shall

• Not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deuteronomy 24:16)

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

• To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deuteronomy 13:15)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to take a bribe (Exodus 23:8)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

6 Property and Property Rights

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

• Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields;

• Not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time (Leviticus 25:34)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To return lost property (Deuteronomy 22:1)

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

 

Criminal Laws

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

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

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

• Not to defraud (Leviticus 19:13)

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

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

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

 

Punishment and Restitution

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

7 Prophecy

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

• Not to prophesy falsely (Deuteronomy 18:20)

• Not to refrain from putting a false prophet to death nor to be in fear of him (Deuteronomy 18:22) Idolatry, Idolaters and Idolatrous Practices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• A person whom he attempted to entice shall

• Not refrain from giving evidence of the enticer's guilt, if he has such evidence (Deuteronomy 13:9)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to consult yid'onim (wizards) (Leviticus 19:31)

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to enquire of a yid'oni (wizard) (Deuteronomy 18:11)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Agriculture and Animal Husbandry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Clothing

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

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

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

 

The Firstborn

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

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

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

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

 

Kohanim and Levites

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

• Not to tear the High Kohein's robe (Exodus 28:32)

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

• That the ordinary kohein shall not defile himself by contact with any dead, other than immediate relatives (Leviticus 21:1-3) • That the kohanim defile themselves for their deceased relatives (by attending their burial), and mourn for them like other Israelites, who are commanded to mourn for their relatives (Leviticus 21:3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• That the High Kohein shall marry a virgin (Leviticus 21:13)

• That the High Kohein shall not marry a widow (Leviticus 21:14)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• That the Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that belongs to the kohanim, nor the kohanim with that belonging to the Levites (Numbers 18:3) 9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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T'rumah, Tithes, and Taxes

• That an uncircumcised person 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 (Exodus 12:44-45 and Leviticus 22:10)

• 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 (Exodus 22:28)

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

• That a kohein who is unclean shall not eat of the t'rumah (Leviticus 22:3-4)

• That a person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohein shall not eat of the t'rumah (Leviticus 22:10)

• That a sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the t'rumah (Leviticus 22:10)

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

• To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after taking out t'rumah) for the Levites (Leviticus 27:30; Numbers 18:24)

• To tithe cattle (Leviticus 27:32)

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

• That the Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had received from the Israelites, and give it to the kohanim (called the t'rumah of the tithe) (Numbers 18:26)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To set apart t'rumah g'dolah (the great heave-offering, that is, a small portion of the grain, wine and oil) for the kohein (Deuteronomy 18:4)

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

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

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

• To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 26:13) The Temple, the Sanctuary and Sacred Objects

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

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

• To build the Sanctuary (Exodus 25:8)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• To revere the Sanctuary (Leviticus 19:30)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Sacrifices and Offerings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Not to sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin-offering (Leviticus 5:8) 11

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

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

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

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

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

• That the High Kohein shall offer a meal offering daily (Leviticus 6:13)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• A kohein's daughter who profaned herself shall ot eat of the holy things, neither of the heave offering nor of the breast, nor of the shoulder of peace offerings (Leviticus 10:14, Leviticus 22:12)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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