The HEBREW SCRIPTURE
As G-D Commanded...
GOD
And God said further to Moses, “So shall you say to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I should be mentioned in every generation.
Shemot (Exodus) 3:15
TORAH
The Five Books of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. But the word “Torah” can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings.
PEOPLE
The original name for the people we now call Jews was Hebrews. The word “Hebrew” (in Hebrew, “Ivri”) is first used in the Torah to describe Abraham (Gen. 14:13). Another name used for the people is Children of Israel or Israelites, which refers to the fact that the people are descendants of Jacob, who was also called Israel.
LAND
This is the land now known as Israel, named after Abraham’s grandson, whose descendants are the Jewish people. The land is often referred to as the Promised Land because of G-d’s repeated promise (Gen. 12:7, 13:15, 15:18, 17:8) to give the land to the descendants of Abraham.
Because Abraham obeyed My voice, and observed My safeguards, My commandments, My decrees, and My Torahs.”
Bereishit (Genesis) 26:5
248 Positive Commandments (do's) and 365 Negative Commandments (do not's)
1. To know that God exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6)
2. Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal (Ex. 20: 3)
3. Not to blaspheme (Ex. 22:27-28 ) Cf Lev 24: 16
4. To hallow God’s name (Lev. 22:32)
5. Not to profane God’s name (Lev. 22:32
6. To know that God is One, a complete Unity (Deut. 6:4)
7. To love God (Deut. 6:5)
8. To fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20)
9. Not to put the word of God to the test (Deut. 6:16)
10. To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)
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)
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)
22. To pray to God (Ex. 23:25; Deut. 6:13)
23. To read the Shema [lit: The Hearing] in the morning and at night (Deut. 6: 7)
24. To recite grace after meals (Deut. 8: 10)
25. Not to lay down a stone for worship (Lev. 26:1)
26. To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Lev. 19: 18)
27. Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16)
28. Not to wrong any one in speech (Lev. 25: 17)
29. Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16)
30. Not to cherish hatred in one’s heart (Lev. 19:17)
31. Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18)
32. Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18)
33. Not to put any Jew to shame (Lev. 19:17)
34. Not to curse any other Israelite (Lev. 19: 14)
35. Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19: 14)
(this includes doing anything that will cause another to sin)
36. To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17)
37. To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5)
38. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor’s beast (Deut. 22:4)
39. Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deut. 22:4)
40. Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21)
41. Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22)
42. To leave the unreaped corners of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
43. Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping)
(Lev. 19:9)
44. To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9)
45. Not to gather ol’loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard (Lev. 19: 10)
46. To leave ol’loth (the imperfect clusters) of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 24:21)
47. Not to gather the single grapes that have fallen to the ground (Lev. 19: 10)
48. To leave the single grapes of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10)
49. Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deut. 24: 19) This applies to all fruit trees (Deut. 24: 20)
50. To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deut. 24:19-20)
51. Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deut. 15:7)
52. To give charity according to one’s means (Deut. 15:11)
53. To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19)
54. Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20)
55. Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex. 22:20)
56. Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7: 3)
57. To exact the debt of an alien (Deut. 15:3)
58. To lend to an alien at interest (Deut. 23:21)
59. To honor father and mother (Ex, 20:12)
60. Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15)
61. Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17)
62. To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19: 3)
63. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28)
64. That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deut. 23: 2)
65. That a bastard [Heb.mamzer = illegitimate son] shall not marry the daughter of a Jew (Deut.23:3)
66. That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite
(Deut. 23:4)
67. Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)
68. Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)
69. That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deut.23:18)
70. To take a wife by the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24: 1)
71. That the newly married husband shall (be free) for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deut. 24:5)
72. That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties (Deut. 24:5)
73. Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex. 21: 10)
74. That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Torah (Num. 5:30)
75. That one who defames his wife’s honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut. 22:19)
76. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut. 22: 19)
77. To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24: 1)
78. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4)
79. That a widow whose husband died childless must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband’s brother (Deut. 25:5) (this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below).
80. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5)
(this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below )
81. That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deut. 25:7-9)
82. Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as sensual kissing, carnal embracing, or provocative winking which may lead to incest (Lev, 18:6)
83. Not to commit incest with one’s mother (Lev. 18: 7)
84. Not to commit sodomy with one’s father (Lev. 18: 7)
85. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s wife (Lev. 18:8)
86. Not to commit incest with one’s sister (Lev. 18: 9)
87. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s wife’s daughter (Lev. 18:9)
88. Not to commit incest with one’s son’s daughter (Lev. 18: 10)
89. Not to commit incest with one’s daughter’s daughter (Lev. 18:10)
90. Not to commit incest with one’s daughter (this is not explicitly in the Torah but is inferred from other explicit commands that would include it)
91. Not to commit incest with one’s fathers sister (Lev. 18: 12)
92. Not to commit incest with one’s mother’s sister (Lev. 18:13)
93. Not to commit incest with one’s father’s brothers wife (Lev. 18:14)
94. Not to commit sodomy with one’s father’s brother (Lev. 18: 14)
95. Not to commit incest with one’s son’s wife (Lev. 18:15)
96. Not to commit incest with one’s brother’s wife (Lev. 18: 16)
97. Not to commit incest with one’s wife’s daughter (Lev. 18: 17)
98. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s son (Lev. 18: 17)
99. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one’s wife’s daughter (Lev. 18: 17)
100. Not to commit incest with one’s wife’s sister (Lev. 18:18)
101. Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev. 18: 19)
102. Not to have intercourse with another man’s wife (Lev. 18:20)
103. Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22)
104. Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
105. That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)
106. Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24)
107. That the new month shall be solemnly proclaimed as holy, and the months and years shall be calculated by the Supreme Court only (Ex. 12: 2)
108. Not to travel on the Sabbath outside the limits of one’s place of residence (Ex. 16:29)
109. To sanctify the Sabbath (Ex. 20:8)
110. Not to do work on Sabbath (Ex. 20:10)
111. To rest on Sabbath (Ex. 23:12; 34:21)
112. To celebrate the festivals (Ex. 23: 14)
113. To rejoice on the festivals (Deut. 16: 14)
114. To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deut. 16: 16)
115. To remove leaven on the Eve of Passover (Ex. 12: 15)
116. To rest on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23: 7)
117. Not to do work on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev.23:6-7)
118. To rest on the seventh day of Passover (Ex, 12:16; Lev, 23:8)
119. Not to do work on the seventh day of Passover (Ex. 23:8)
120. To eat “matzah” [unleavened bread] on the first night of Passover (Ex. 12:18)
121. That no leaven be in the Israelite’s possession during Passover (Ex. 12:19)
122. Not to eat any food containing leaven on Passover (Ex. 12:20)
123. Not to eat leaven on Passover (Ex. 13: 3)
124. That leaven shall not be seen in an Israelite’s home during Passover (Ex.
13:7)
125. To discuss the departure from Egypt on the first night of Passover (Ex. 13:8)
126. Not to eat leaven after mid-day on the fourteenth of Nissan (Deut. 16: 3)
127. To count forty-nine days from the time of the cutting of the Omer
(i.e. first sheaves of the barley harvest) (Lev. 23:15)
128. To rest on Pentecost (Lev. 23:21)
129. Not to do work on the feast of Pentecost (Lev. 23:21)
130. To rest on Rosh Hashanah [i.e., the feast of Trumpets] (Lev. 23:24) (CCA29)
131. Not to do work on Rosh Hashanah (Lev. 23:25)
132. To hear the sound of the Trumpet [Heb. shofar or ram’s horn] (Num. 29: 1)
133. To fast on Yom Kippur i.e., the day of Atonement (Lev. 23:27)
134. Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:29) (CCN152)
135. Not to do work on Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:31) (CCN151)
136. To rest on the Yom Kippur (Lev. 23:32)
137. To rest on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles or Booths.[Heb. Sukkot] (Lev. 23:35)
138. Not to do work on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:35)
139. To rest on the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles (Lev.23:36)
140. Not to do work on the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:36)
141. To take during Sukkot a palm branch and the other three plants (Lev. 23:40)
142. To dwell in booths seven days during Sukkot (Lev. 23:42)
143. To examine the marks in cattle (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean) (Lev. 11:2)
144. Not to eat the flesh of unclean beasts (Lev. 11:4)
145. To examine the marks in fishes (so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:9)
146. Not to eat unclean fish (Lev. 11:11)
147. To examine the marks in fowl, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Deut. 14:11)
148. Not to eat unclean fowl (Lev. 11:13)
149. To examine the marks in locusts, so as to distinguish the clean from the unclean (Lev. 11:21)
150. Not to eat a worm found in fruit (Lev. 11:41)
151. Not to eat of things that creep upon the earth (Lev. 11:41-42)
152.Not to eat any vermin of the earth (Lev. 11:44)
153. Not to eat things that swarm in the water (Lev. 11:43 and 46)
154. Not to eat of winged insects (Deut. 14:19)
155. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that is torn (Ex. 22:30)
156. Not to eat the flesh of a beast that died of itself (Deut. 14:21)
157. To slay cattle, deer and fowl according to the law if their flesh is to be eaten (Deut. 12:21)
158. Not to eat a limb removed from a living beast (Deut. 12:23)
159.Not to slaughter an animal and its young on the same day (Lev. 22:28)
160. Not to take the mother-bird with the young (Deut. 22: 6)
161. To set the mother-bird free when taking the nest (Deut. 22:6-7)
162. Not to eat the flesh of an ox that was condemned to be stoned (Ex. 21:28)
163. Not to boil meat with milk (Ex. 23:19)
164. Not to eat flesh with milk (Ex. 34: 26)
165. Not to eat the of the thigh-vein which shrank (Gen. 32: 33)
166. Not to eat the fat of the offering (Lev. 7:23)
167. Not to eat blood (Lev. 7:26)
168. To cover the blood of undomesticated animals (deer, etc.) and of fowl that have been killed (Lev. 17:13)
169. Not to eat or drink like a glutton or a drunkard (not to rebel against father or mother) (Lev. 19:26; Deut. 21:20)
170. Not to do wrong in buying or selling (Lev. 25: 14)
171. Not to make a loan to an Israelite on interest (Lev. 25: 37)
172. Not to borrow on interest (Deut. 23:20) (because this would cause the lender to sin)
173. Not to take part in any usurious transaction between borrower and lender, neither as a surety, nor as a witness, nor as a writer of the bond for them (Ex. 22:24)
174. To lend to a poor person (Ex. 22:24)
175. Not to demand from a poor man repayment of his debt, when the creditor knows that he cannot pay, nor press him (Ex.22:24)
176. Not to take in pledge utensils used in preparing food (Deut. 24:6)
177. Not to exact a pledge from a debtor by force (Deut. 24: 10)
178. Not to keep the pledge from its owner at the time when he needs it (Deut. 24: 12)
179. To return a pledge to its owner (Deut. 24: 13)
180. Not to take a pledge from a widow (Deut. 24: 17)
181. Not to commit fraud in measuring (Lev. 19:35)
182. To ensure that scales and weights are correct (Lev. 19:36)
183. Not to possess inaccurate measures and weights (Deut. 25:13-14)
184. Not to delay payment of a hired man’s wages (Lev. 19: 13)
185. That the hired laborer shall be permitted to eat of the produce he is reaping (Deut. 23:25-26)
186. That the hired laborer shall not take more than he can eat (Deut. 23:25)
187. That a hired laborer shall not eat produce that is not being harvested (Deut. 23:26)
188. To pay wages to the hired man at the due time (Deut. 24: 15)
189. To deal judicially with the Hebrew bondman in accordance with the laws appertaining to him (Ex. 21:2-6)
190. Not to compel the Hebrew servant to do the work of a slave (Lev. 25: 39)
191. Not to sell a Hebrew servant as a slave (Lev. 25:42)
192. Not to treat a Hebrew servant rigorously (Lev. 25:43)
193. Not to permit a gentile to treat harshly a Hebrew bondman sold to him (Lev. 25:53)
194. Not to send away a Hebrew bondman servant empty handed, when he is freed from service (Deut. 15:13)
195. To bestow liberal gifts upon the Hebrew bondsman (at the end of his term of service), and the same should be done to a Hebrew bondwoman (Deut. 15: 14)
196. To redeem a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex, 21:8)
197. Not to sell a Hebrew maid-servant to another person (Ex. 21:8)
198. To espouse a Hebrew maid-servant (Ex. 21:8-9)
199. To keep the Canaanite slave forever (Lev. 25:46)
200. Not to surrender a slave, who has fled to the land of Israel, to his owner who lives outside Palestine (Deut. 23: 16)
201. Not to wrong such a slave (Deut. 23:17)
202. Not to muzzle a beast, while it is working jn produce which it can eat and enjoy (Deut. 25:4)
203. That a man should fulfill whatever he has uttered (Deut. 23:24)
204. Not to swear needlessly (Ex. 20: 7)
205. Not to violate an oath or swear falsely (Lev. 19: 12)
206. To decide in cases of annulment of vows, according to the rules set forth in the Torah (Num. 30•.2-17)
207. Not to break a vow (Num. 30: 3)
208. To swear by His name truly (Deut. 10:20)
209. Not to delay in fulfilling vows or bringing vowed or free-will offerings (Deut. 23:22)
210. To let the land lie fallow in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25: 2)
211. To cease from tilling the land in the Sabbatical year (Ex. 23:11) (Lev. 25:2)
212. Not to till the ground in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
213. Not to do any work on the trees in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:4)
214. Not to reap the aftermath that grows in the Sabbatical year, in the same way as it is reaped in other years (Lev. 25:5)
215. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Sabbatical year in the same way as it is gathered in other years (Lev. 25: 5)
216. To sound the Ram’s horn in the Sabbatical year (Lev. 25:9)
217. To release debts in the seventh year (Deut. 15: 2)
218. Not to demand return of a loan after the Sabbatical year has passed (Deut.
15:2)
219. Not to refrain from making a loan to a poor man, because of the release of loans in the Sabbatical year (Deut. 15:9)
220. To assemble the people to hear the Torah at the close of the seventh year (Deut. 31:12)
221. To count the years of the Jubilee by years and by cycles of seven years (Lev.
25:8)
222. To keep the Jubilee year holy by resting and letting the land lie fallow (Lev. 25:10)
223. Not to cultivate the soil nor do any work on the trees, in the Jubilee Year (Lev. 25:11)
224. Not to reap the aftermath of the field that grew of itself in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25: 11)
225. Not to gather the fruit of the tree in the Jubilee Year, in the same way as in other years (Lev. 25: 11)
226. To grant redemption to the land in the Jubilee year (Lev. 25: 24)
227. To appoint judges and officers in every community of Israel (Deut. 16: 18)
228. Not to appoint as a judge, a person who is not well versed in the laws of the
Torah, even if he is expert in other branches of knowledge (Deut. 1:17)
229. To adjudicate cases of purchase and sale (Lev. 25: 14)
230. To judge cases of liability of a paid depositary (Ex. 22:9)
231. To adjudicate cases of loss for which a gratuitous borrower is liable (Ex. 22:13-14)
232. To adjudicate cases of inheritances (Num. 27:8-11)
233. To judge cases of damage caused by an uncovered pit (Ex. 21 : 33-34)
234. To judge cases of injuries caused by beasts (Ex. 21:35-36)
235. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by trespass of cattle (Ex. 22:4)
236. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by fire (Ex. 22: 5)
237. To adjudicate cases of damage caused by a gratuitous depositary (Ex. 22:6-7)
238. To adjudicate other cases between a plaintiff and a defendant (Ex. 22:8)
239. Not to curse a judge (Ex. 22:27)
240. That one who possesses evidence shall testify in Court
241. Not to testify falsely (Ex. 20: 13)
242. That a witness, who has testified in a capital case, shall not lay down the law in that particular case (Num. 35:30)
243. That a transgressor shall not testify (Ex. 23: 1)
244. That the court shall not accept the testimony of a close relative of the defendant in matters of capital punishment (Deut. 24: 16)
245. Not to hear one of the parties to a suit in the absence of the other party (Ex. 23:1)
246. To examine witnesses thoroughly (Deut. 13: 15)
247. Not to decide a case on the evidence of a single witness (Deut. 19:15)
248. To give the decision according to the majority, when there is a difference of opinion among the members of the Sanhedrin as to matters of law (Ex. 23: 2)
249. Not to decide, in capital cases, according to the view of the majority, when those who are for condemnation exceed by one only, those who are for acquittal (Ex. 23:2)
250. That, in capital cases, one who had argued for acquittal, shall not later on argue for condemnation (Ex. 23: 2)
251. To treat parties in a litigation with equal impartiality (Lev. 19:15)
252. Not to render iniquitous decisions (Lev. 19: 15)
253. Not to favor a great man when trying a case (Lev. 19: 15)
254. Not to take a bribe (Ex. 23:8)
255. Not to be afraid of a bad man, when trying a case (Deut. 1:17)
256. Not to be moved in trying a case, by the poverty of one of the parties (Ex. 23:3; Lev. 19:15)
257. Not to pervert the judgment of strangers or orphans (Deut. 24: 17)
258. Not to pervert the judgment of a sinner (a person poor in fulfillment of commandments) (Ex. 23:6)
259. Not to render a decision on one’s personal opinion, but only on the evidence of two witnesses, who saw what actually occurred (Ex. 23: 7)
260. Not to execute one guilty of a capital offense, before he has stood his trial (Num. 35: 12)
261. To accept the rulings of every Supreme Court in Israel (Deut. 17: 11)
262. Not to rebel against the orders of the Court (Deut. 17:11)
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)
267. Not to sell a field in the land of Israel in perpetuity (Lev. 25: 23)
268. Not to change the character of the open land (about the cities of) the Levites or of their fields; not to sell it in perpetuity, but it may be redeemed at any time
(Lev. 25:34)
269. That houses sold within a walled city may be redeemed within a year (Lev. 25:29)
270. Not to remove landmarks (property boundaries) (Deut. 19: 14)
271. Not to swear falsely in denial of another’s property rights (Lev. 19: 11)
272. Not to deny falsely another’s property rights (Lev. 19:11)
273. Never to settle in the land of Egypt (Deut. 17: 16)
274. Not to steal personal property (Lev. 19:11)
275. To restore that which one took by robbery (Lev. 5:23)
276. To return lost property (Deut. 22: 1)
277. Not to pretend not to have seen lost property, to avoid the obligation to return it (Deut. 22:3)
278. Not to slay an innocent person (Ex. 20:13)
279. Not to kidnap any person of Israel (Ex. 20:13)
280. Not to rob by violence (Lev. 19:13)
281. Not to defraud (Lev. 19:13)
282. Not to covet what belongs to another (Ex. 20: 14)
283. Not to crave something that belongs to another (Deut. 5: 18)
284. Not to indulge in evil thoughts and sights (Num. 15:39)
285. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by decapitation with the sword (Ex. 21:20; Lev. 26:25)
286. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by strangulation (Lev. 20: 10)
287. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by burning with fire (Lev. 20:14)
288. That the Court shall pass sentence of death by stoning (Deut. 22:24)
289. To hang the dead body of one who has incurred that penalty (Deut. 21:22)
290. That the dead body of an executed criminal shall not remain hanging on the tree over night (Deut. 21:23)
291. To inter the executed on the day of execution (Deut. 21:23)
292.Not to accept ransom from a murderer (Num. 35: 31)
293. To exile one who committed accidental homicide (Num. 35: 25)
294. To establish six cities of refuge (for those who committed accidental homicide) (Deut. 19:3)
295. Not to accept ransom from an accidental homicide, so as to relieve him from exile (Num. 35:32)
296. To decapitate the heifer in the manner prescribed (in expiation of a murder on the road, the perpetrator of which remained undiscovered) (Deut. 21:4)
297. Not to plow nor sow the rough valley (in which a heifer’s neck was broken) (Deut. 21:4)
298. To adjudge a thief to pay compensation or (in certain cases) suffer death
(Ex. 21:16; Ex. 21:37; Ex. 22•.1)
299. That he who inflicts a bodily injury shall pay monetary compensation (Ex.
21:18-19)
300. To impose a penalty of fifty shekels upon the seducer (of an unbetrothed virgin) and enforce the other rules in connection with the case (Ex. 22:15-16)
301. That the violator (of an unbetrothed virgin) shall marry her (Deut. 22:2829)
302. That one who has raped a damsel and has then (in accordance with the law) married her, may not divorce her (Deut. 22:29)
303. Not to inflict punishment on the sabbath (Ex. 35: 3) (because some punishments were inflicted by fire)
304. To punish the wicked by the infliction of stripes (Deut. 25: 2)
305. Not to exceed the statutory number of stripes laid on one who has incurred that punishment (Deut. 25:3) (and by implication, not to strike anyone)
306. Not to spare the offender, in imposing the prescribed penalties on one who has caused damage (Deut. 19:13)
307. To do unto false witnesses as they had purposed to do (to the accused) (Deut. 19:19)
308. Not to punish any one who has committed an offense under duress (Deut. 22:26)
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)
312. Not to make a graven image; neither to make it oneself nor to have it made by others (Ex. 20:4)
313. Not to make any figures for ornament, even if they are not worshipped (Ex. 20:20)
314. Not to make idols even for others (Ex. 34: 17; Lev. 19:4)
315. Not to use the ornament of any object of idolatrous worship (Deut. 7:25)
316. Not to make use of an idol or its accessory objects, offerings, or libations (Deut. 7:26)
317. Not to drink wine of idolaters (Deut. 32: 38)
318. Not to worship an idol in the way in which it is usually worshipped (Ex. 20:5)
319. Not to bow down to an idol, even if that is not its mode of worship (Ex. 20:5)
320. Not to prophesy in the name of an idol (Ex. 23: 13; Deut. 18:20)
321. Not to hearken to one who prophesies in the name of an idol (Deut. 13:4)
322. Not to lead the children of Israel astray to idolatry (Ex. 23:13)
323. Not to entice an Israelite to idolatry (Deut. 13:12)
324. To destroy idolatry and its appurtenances (Deut. 12:2-3)
325. Not to love the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13:9)
326. Not to give up hating the enticer to idolatry (Deut. 13: 9)
327. Not to save the enticer from capital punishment, but to stand by at his execution (Deut. 13:9)
328. A person whom he attempted to entice to idolatry shall not urge pleas for the acquittal of the enticer (Deut. 13:9)
329. A person whom he attempted to entice shall not refrain from giving evidence of the enticer’s guilt, if he has such evidence (Deut. 13:9)
330. Not to swear by an idol to its worshipers, nor cause them to swear by it (Ex. 23:13)
331. Not to turn one’s attention to idolatry (Lev. 19:4)
332. Not to adopt the institutions of idolaters nor their customs (Lev. 18: 3; Lev. 20:23)
333. Not to pass a child through the fire to Molech (Lev. 18:21)
334. Not to suffer any one practicing witchcraft to live (Ex. 22:17)
335. Not to practice observing times or seasons -i.e. astrology (Lev, 19:26)
336. Not to practice superstitions/witchcraft (doing things based on signs and potions; using charms and incantations) (Lev. 19:26)
337. Not to consult familiar spirits or ghosts (Lev. 19:31)
338. Not to consult wizards (Lev. 19:31)
339. Not to practice specific magic by using stones herbs or objects. (Deut. 18:10)
340. Not to practice magical practices in general. (Deut. 18:10)
341. Not to practice the art of casting spells over snakes and scorpions (Deut. 18:11)
342. Not to enquire of a familiar spirit or ghost (Deut. 18:11)
343. Not to seek the dead (Deut. 18:11)
344. Not to enquire of a wizard) (Deut. 18:11)
345. Not to remove the entire beard, like the idolaters (Lev. 19:27)
346. Not to round the corners of the head, as the idolatrous priests do (Lev. 19:27)
347. Not to cut oneself or make incisions in one’s flesh in grief, like the idolaters (Lev. 19:28; Deut. 14: 1)
348. Not to tattoo the body like the idolaters (Lev. 19:28)
349. Not to make a bald spot for the dead (Deut. 14: 1)
350. Not to plant a tree for worship (Deut. 16:21)
351. Not to set up a pillar (for worship) (Deut. 16:22)
352. Not to show favor to idolaters (Deut. 7: 2)
353. Not to make a covenant with the seven (Canaanite, idolatrous) nations (Ex. 23:32; Deut. 7:2)
354. Not to settle idolaters in our land (Ex. 23:33)
355. To slay the inhabitants of a city that has become idolatrous and burn that city (Deut. 13:16-17)
356. Not to rebuild a city that has been led astray to idolatry (Deut. 13: 17)
357. Not to make use of the property of city that has been so led astray (Deut. 13:18)
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)
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)
368. To redeem the firstborn human male (Ex. 13:13; Ex. 34:20;Num. 18:15)
369. To redeem the firstling of an ass (Ex. 13:13; Ex. 34:20)
370. To break the neck of the firstling of an ass if it is not redeemed (Ex. 13:13; Ex. 34:20)
371. Not to redeem the firstling of a clean beast (Num. 18: 17)
372. That the Priest shall put on priestly vestments for the service (Ex, 28: 2)
373. Not to tear the High Priest’s robe (Ex. 28:32)
374. That the Priest shall not enter the Sanctuary at all times (i.e., at times when he is not performing service) (Lev. 16:2)
375. That the ordinary Priest shall not defile himself by contact with any dead, other than immediate relatives (Lev. 21 : 1-3)
376. That the sons of Aaron defile themselves for their deceased relatives (by attending their burial), and mourn for them like other Israelites, who are commanded to mourn for their relatives (Lev.21:3)
377. That a Priest who had an immersion during the day (to cleanse him from his uncleanness) shall not serve in the Sanctuary until after sunset (Lev. 21:6)
378. That a Priest shall not marry a divorced woman (Lev. 21: 7)
379. That a Priest shall not marry a harlot (Lev. 21: 7)
380. That a Priest shall not marry a profaned woman (Lev. 21: 7)
381. To show honor to a Priest, and to give him precedence in all things that are holy (Lev. 21:8)
382. That a High Priest shall not defile himself with any dead, even if they are relatives (Lev. 21:11)
383. That a High Priest shall not go (under the same roof) with a dead body (Lev. 21:11)
384. That the High Priest shall marry a virgin (Lev. 21:13)
385. That the High Priest shall not marry a widow (Lev. 21: 14)
386. That the High Priest shall not cohabit with a widow, even without marriage, because he profanes her (Lev. 21:15)
387. That a person with a physical blemish shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Lev. 21:17)
388. That a Priest with a temporary blemish shall not serve there (Lev. 21:21)
389. That a person with a physical blemish shall not enter the Sanctuary further than the altar (Lev. 21:23)
390. That a Priest who is unclean shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Lev. 22:2-3)
391. To send the unclean out of the Camp, that is, out of the Sanctuary (Num. 5:2)
392. That a Priest who is unclean shall not enter the courtyard (Num. 5:2-3) This refers to the Camp of the Sanctuary
393. That the sons or descendants of Aaron shall bless Israel (Num. 6:23)
394. To set apart a portion of the dough for the Priest (Num. 15:20)
395. That the Levites shall not occupy themselves with the service that belongs to the sons of Aaron, nor the sons of Aaron with that belonging to the Levites (Num. 18:3)
396. That one not a descendant of Aaron in the male line shall not serve (in the Sanctuary) (Num. 18:4-7)
397. That the Levite shall serve in the Sanctuary (Num. 18:23)
398. To give the Levites cities to dwell in, these to serve also as cities of refuge (Num. 35:2)
399. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any portion of territory in the land (of Israel) (Deut. 18: 1)
400. That none of the tribe of Levi shall take any share of the spoil (at the conquest of the Promised Land) (Deut. 18: 1)
401. That the sons of Aaron shall serve in the Sanctuary in divisions, but on festivals, they all serve together (Deut. 18:6-8)
402. 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 (Ex. 12:44-45 and Lev. 22: 10) but it is not explicitly set forth in the Torah. Traditionally, it has been learnt that the rule that the uncircumcised must not eat holy things is an essential principle of the Torah and not an enactment of the Scribes
403. Not to alter the order of separating the t’rumah and the tithes; the separation be in the order first-fruits at the beginning, then the t’rumah, then the first tithe, and last the second tithe (Ex. 22:28)
404. To give half a shekel every year (to the Sanctuary for provision of the public sacrifices) (Ex. 30: 13)
405. That a preist [kohein] who is unclean shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev.22:3-4)
406. That a person who is not a kohein or the wife or unmarried daughter of a kohein shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
407. That a sojourner with a kohein or his hired servant shall not eat of the t’rumah (Lev. 22:10)
408. Not to eat unholy things [Heb. tevel] (something from which the t’rumah and tithe have not yet been separated) (Lev. 22:15)
409. To set apart the tithe of the produce (one tenth of the produce after taking out t’rumah) for the Levites (Lev. 27: 30; Num. 18:24)
410. To tithe cattle (Lev. 27:32)
411. Not to sell the tithe of the heard (Lev. 27:32-33)
412. That the Levites shall set apart a tenth of the tithes, which they had received from the Israelites, and give it to the Priest [Heb. kohanim] (called the t’rumah of the tithe) (Num. 18:26)
413. Not to eat the second tithe of cereals outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
414. Not to consume the second tithe of the vintage outside of Jerusalem (Deut.
12:17)
415. Not to consume the second tithe of the oil outside of Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
416. Not to forsake the Levites (Deut. 12:19); but their gifts (dues) should be given to them, so that they might rejoice therewith on each and every festival
417. To set apart the second tithe in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the sabbatical cycle to be eaten by its owner in Jerusalem (Deut. 14: 22)
418. To set apart the second tithe in the third and sixth year of the sabbatical cycle for the poor (Deut. 14:28-29)
419. To give the kohein [i.e. Priest] the due portions of the carcass of cattle (Deut. 18:3)
420. To give the first of the fleece to the priest (Deut. 18:4)
421. To set apart a small portion of the grain, wine and oil for the Priest [Heb. kohein] [Heb. t’rumah g’dolah i.e. (the great heave-offering) (Deut. 18:4)
422. Not to expend the proceeds of the second tithe on anything but food and drink (Deut. 26: 14)
423. Not to eat the Second Tithe, even in Jerusalem, in a state of uncleanness, until the tithe had been redeemed (Deut. 26: 14)
424. Not to eat the Second Tithe, when mourning (Deut. 26: 14)
425. To make the declaration, when bringing the second tithe to the Sanctuary (Deut. 26: 13)
426. Not to build an altar of hewn stone (Ex. 20:22)
427.Not to mount the altar by steps (Ex. 20:23)
428. To build the Sanctuary (Ex. 25:8)
429. Not to remove the staves from the Ark (Ex. 25: 15)
430. To set the showbread and the frankincense before the Lord every Sabbath (Ex. 25:30)
431. To kindle lights in the Sanctuary (Ex. 27:21)
432. That the breastplate shall not be loosened from the ephod (Ex. 28: 28)
433. To offer up incense twice daily (Ex. 30: 7)
434. Not to offer strange incense nor any sacrifice upon the golden altar (Ex. 30:9)
435. That the Priest shall wash his hands and feet at the time of service (Ex. 30: 19)
436. To prepare the oil of anointment and anoint high priests and kings with it (Ex. 30:31)
437. Not to compound oil for lay use after the formula of the anointing oil (Ex. 30:32-33)
438. Not to anoint a stranger with the anointing oil (Ex. 30: 32)
439. Not to compound anything after the formula of the incense (Ex. 30: 37)
440. That he who, in error, makes unlawful use of sacred things, shall make restitution of the value of his trespass and add a fifth (Lev. 5: 16)
441. To remove the ashes from the altar (Lev. 6:3)
442. To keep fire always burning on the altar of the burnt-offering (Lev. 6:6)
443. Not to extinguish the fire on the altar (Lev. 6:6)
444. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with disheveled hair (Lev. 10:6)
445. That a kohein shall not enter the Sanctuary with torn garments (Lev. 10:6)
446. That the kohein shall not leave the Courtyard of the Sanctuary, during service (Lev. 10: 7)
447. That an intoxicated person shall not enter the Sanctuary nor give decisions in matters of the Law (Lev. 10:9-11)
448. To revere the Sanctuary (Lev. 19:30) (today, this applies to synagogues)
449. That when the Ark is carried, it should be carried on the shoulder (Num. 7:9)
450. To observe the second Passover (Num. 9:11)
451. To eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb on it, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs (Num. 9:11)
452. Not to leave any flesh of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover until the morning (Num. 9:12)
453. Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb brought on the second Passover (Num. 9:12)
454. To sound the trumpets at the offering of sacrifices and in times of trouble (Num. 10:9-10)
455. To watch over the edifice continually (Num. 18: 2)
456. Not to allow the Sanctuary to remain unwatched (Num. 18: 5)
457. That an offering shall be brought by one who has in error committed a trespass against sacred things, or robbed, or Iain 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)
And when you make for Me an Altar of stones, do not build them hewn, for you will have raised your sword over it and desecrated it.
Shemot 20:22
You shall not bring upon it alien incense, or a burnt-offering or meal-offering; nor may you pour a libation upon it.
Shemot 30:9
You shall not do this to Hashem, your God.
Rather, only at the place that Hashem, your God, will choose from among all your tribes to place His Name there shall you seek out His Presence and come there.
Devarim 12:4-5
1 You shall make an altar for bringing incense up in smoke; you shall make it out of acacia wood.
2 It shall be one cubit long and one cubit wide, a square, and two cubits high; its horns shall be [one piece] with it.
3 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its walls all around, and its horns; and you shall make for it a golden crown all around.
4 You shall make two golden rings for it underneath its crown on its two corners, you shall make [them] on its two sides, so that it should serve as holders for poles with which to carry it.
5 You shall make the poles out of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
6 And you shall place it in front of the dividing curtain, which is upon the Ark of Testimony, in front of the ark cover, which is upon the testimony, where I will arrange to meet with you.
7 Aaron shall make incense of spices go up in smoke upon it; every morning when he sets the lamps in order, he shall make it go up in smoke.
8 And when Aaron kindles the lights in the afternoon, he shall make it go up in smoke, continual incense before the Lord for your generations.
9 You shall offer up on it no alien incense, burnt offering, or meal offering, and you shall pour no libation upon it.
10 But Aaron shall make atonement upon its horns once a year; with the blood of the sin offering of the atonements, once a year he shall effect atonement upon it for your generations; it is a holy of holies to the Lord.
11 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
12 “When you take the sum of the children of Israel according to their numbers, let each one give to the Lord an atonement for his soul when they are counted; then there will be no plague among them when they are counted.
13 This they shall give, everyone who goes through the counting: half a shekel according to the holy shekel. Twenty gerahs equal one shekel; half of [such] a shekel shall be an offering to the Lord.
14 Everyone who goes through the counting, from the age of twenty and upward, shall give an offering to the Lord.
15 The rich shall give no more, and the poor shall give no less than half a shekel, with which to give the offering to the Lord, to atone for your souls.
16 You shall take the silver of the atonements from the children of Israel and use it for the work of the Tent of Meeting; it shall be a remembrance for the children of Israel before the Lord, to atone for your souls.”
17 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
18 “You shall make a washstand of copper and its base of copper for washing, and you shall place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water therein.
19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet from it.
20 When they enter the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die; or when they approach the altar to serve, to make a fire offering rise up in smoke to the Lord,
21 they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this shall be for them a perpetual statute, for him and for his descendants, for their generations.”
22 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
23 “And you, take for yourself spices of the finest sort: of pure myrrh five hundred [shekel weights]; of fragrant cinnamon half of it two hundred and fifty [shekel weights]; of fragrant cane two hundred and fifty [shekel weights],
24 and of cassia five hundred [shekel weights] according to the holy shekel, and one hin of olive oil.
25 You shall make this into an oil of holy anoinment, a perfumed compound according to the art of a perfumer; it shall be an oil of holy anointment.
26 And you shall anoint with it the Tent of Meeting and the Ark of Testimony,
27 the table and all its implements, the menorah and its implements, the altar of incense,
28 the altar of the burnt offering and all its implements, the washstand and its base.
29 And you shall sanctify them so that they become a holy of holies; whatever touches them shall become holy.
30 And with it you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them to serve Me [as kohanim].
31 And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying: ‘This shall be oil of holy anointment to Me for your generations.
32 It shall not be poured upon human flesh, and according to its formula you shall not make anything like it. It is holy; it shall be holy to you.
33 Any person who compounds anything like it or puts any of it on an alien shall be cut off from his people.’ “
34 And the Lord said to Moses: “Take for yourself aromatics, [namely] balsam sap, onycha and galbanum, aromatics and pure frankincense; they shall be of equal weight.
35 And you shall make it into incense, a compound according to the art of the perfumer, well blended, pure, holy.
36 And you shall crush some of it very finely, and you shall set some of it before the testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will arrange meetings with you; it shall be to you a holy of holies.
37 And the incense that you make, you shall not make for yourselves according to its formula; it shall be holy to you for the Lord.
38 Any person who makes anything like it, to smell it[s fragrance], shall be cut off from his people.
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