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A simplified listing
of the Laws of God as they were understood
by the Old Testament Hebrews, and the Hebrew
people of the present day. The Hebrew word
for “LAW” is Torah. In its most limited
definition it refers to the Pentateuch 1.
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 supersedes 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 (Exod. 20:2; Deut.
5:6)
2. Not to entertain the idea that
there is any god but the Eternal (Exod.
20:3)
3. Not to blaspheme (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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
(Exod. 22:20)
55. Not to wrong the
stranger in buying or selling (Exod. 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 (Exod. 20:12)
60.
Not to smite a father or a mother (Exod.
21:15)
61. Not to curse a father or
mother (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 releases 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 father’s
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 brother’s 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 (Exod. 12:2)
108. Not to
travel on the Sabbath outside the limits of
one’s place of residence (Exod. 16:29)
109. To sanctify the Sabbath (Exod. 20:8)
110. Not to do work on Sabbath (Exod. 20:10)
111. To rest on Sabbath (Exod. 23:12; 34:21)
112. To celebrate the festivals (Exod.
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
(Exod. 12:15)
116. To rest on the first
day of Passover (Exod. 12:16; Lev. 23:7)
117. Not to do work on the first day of
Passover (Exod. 12:16; Lev. 23:6-7)
118.
To rest on the seventh day of Passover
(Exod. 12:16; Lev. 23:8)
119. Not to do
work on the seventh day of Passover (Exod.
12:16; Lev. 23:8)
120. To eat “matzah”
[unleavened bread] on the first night of
Passover (Exod. 12:18)
121. That no
leaven be in the Israelite’s possession
during Passover (Exod. 12:19)
122. Not to
eat any food containing leaven on Passover
(Exod. 12:20)
123. Not to eat leaven on
Passover (Exod. 13:3)
124. That leaven
shall not be seen in an Israelite’s home
during Passover (Exod. 13:7)
125. To
discuss the departure from Egypt on the
first night of Passover (Exod. 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, 46)
154. Not to
eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19)
155.
Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is torn
(Exod. 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 (Exod. 21:28)
163.
Not to boil meat with milk (Exod. 23:19)
164. Not to eat flesh with milk (Exod.
34:26)
165. Not to eat the of the
thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32:32)
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 (Exod. 22:24)
174. To lend
to a poor person (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 21:8)
197. Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to
another person (Exod. 21:8)
198. To
espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 23:11;
Lev. 25:2)
211. To cease from tilling the
land in the Sabbatical year (Exod. 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 (Exod. 22:9)
231. To adjudicate cases of loss for which a
gratuitous borrower is liable (Exod.
22:13-14)
232. To adjudicate cases of
inheritances (Num. 27:8-11)
233. To judge
cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit
(Exod. 21:33-34)
234. To judge cases of
injuries caused by beasts (Exod. 21:35-36)
235. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by
trespass of cattle (Exod. 22:4)
236. To
adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire
(Exod. 22:5)
237. To adjudicate cases of
damage caused by a gratuitous depositary
(Exod. 22:6-7)
238. To adjudicate other
cases between a plaintiff and a defendant
(Exod. 22:8)
239. Not to curse a judge
(Exod. 22:27)
240. That one who possesses
evidence shall testify in Court (Lev. 5:1)
241. Not to testify falsely (Exod. 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 (Exod.
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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 23:2)
250. That,
in capital cases, one who had argued for
acquittal, shall not later on argue for
condemnation (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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
(Exod. 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) (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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. 5:17-19)
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
(Exod. 20:13)
279. Not to kidnap any
person of Israel (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 overnight (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 (Exod. 21:16; Exod.
21:36; Exod. 22:1)
299. That he who
inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary
compensation (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod.
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 anyone 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 (Exod.
20:4)
313. Not to make any figures for
ornament, even if they are not worshipped
(Exod. 20:20)
314. Not to make idols even
for others (Exod. 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
(Exod. 20:5)
319. Not to bow down to an
idol, even if that is not its mode of
worship (Exod. 20:5)
320. Not to prophesy
in the name of an idol (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod. 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 (Exod.
23:32; Deut. 7:2)
354. Not to settle
idolaters in our land (Exod. 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 (Exod. 13:13; Exod. 34:20; Num.
18:15)
369. To redeem the firstling of an
ass (Exod. 13:13; Exod. 34:20)
370. To
break the neck of the firstling of an ass if
it is not redeemed (Exod. 13:13; Exod.
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 (Exod. 28:2)
373. Not to tear the High Priest’s robe
(Exod. 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 (Exod.
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 (Exod.
22:28)
404. To give half a shekel every
year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the
public sacrifices) (Exod. 30:13)
405.
That a priest [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 (Exod.
20:22)
427. Not to mount the altar by
steps (Exod. 20:23)
428. To build the
Sanctuary (Exod. 25:8)
429. Not to remove
the staves from the Ark (Exod. 25:15)
430. To set the showbread and the
frankincense before the Lord every Sabbath
(Exod. 25:30)
431. To kindle lights in
the Sanctuary (Exod. 27:21)
432. That the
breastplate shall not be loosened from the
ephod (Exod. 28:28)
433. To offer up
incense twice daily (Exod. 30:7)
434. Not
to offer strange incense nor any sacrifice
upon the golden altar (Exod. 30:9)
435.
That the Priest shall wash his hands and
feet at the time of service (Exod. 30:19)
436. To prepare the oil of anointment and
anoint high priests and kings with it (Exod.
30:31)
437. Not to compound oil for lay
use after the formula of the anointing oil
(Exod. 30:32-33)
438. Not to anoint a
stranger with the anointing oil (Exod.
30:32)
439. Not to compound anything
after the formula of the incense (Exod.
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 (Exod. 13:2; Deut. 15:19)
460. To slay the Paschal lamb (Exod. 12:6)
461. To eat the flesh of the Paschal
sacrifice on the night of the fifteenth of
Nissan (Exod. 12:8)
462. Not to eat the
flesh of the Paschal lamb raw or sodden
(Exod. 12:9)
463. Not to leave any
portion of the flesh of the Paschal
sacrifice until the morning unconsumed
(Exod. 12:10)
464. Not to give the flesh
of the Paschal lamb to an Israelite who had
become an apostate (Exod. 12:43)
465. Not
to give flesh of the Paschal lamb to a
stranger who lives among you to eat (Exod.
12:45)
466. Not to take any of the flesh
of the Paschal lamb from the company’s place
of assembly (Exod. 12:46)
467. Not to
break a bone of the Paschal lamb (Exod.
12:46)
468. That the uncircumcised shall
not eat of the flesh of the Paschal lamb
(Exod. 12:48)
469. Not to slaughter the
Paschal lamb while there is leaven in the
home (Exod. 23:18; Exod. 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 (Exod. 23:18; Exod. 34:25)
471. Not
to go up to the Sanctuary for the festival
without bringing an offering (Exod. 23:15)
472. To bring the first fruits to the
Sanctuary (Exod. 23:19)
473. That the
flesh of a sin-offering and guilt-offering
shall be eaten (Exod. 29:33)
474. That
one not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat
the flesh of the holy sacrifices (Exod.
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
descendants] 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 defile (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 (Exod. 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)
Nazirites:
588. That a
Nazirite 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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