Judaism: The 613 Mitzvot (Commandments)

The following is a brief listing of the 613 commandments (mitzvot), as recorded and classified by Maimonides in the 12th century. This listing is taken from his classic compendium of Jewish law, the "Mishneh Torah," which contains 14 primary "books" or sections.

BOOK ONE: THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

Fundamentals of Torah:
1	To know there is a God	Ex. 20:2
2	Not to entertain thoughts of other gods besides Him
Ex. 20:3
3	To know that He is one	Deut. 6:4
4	To love Him	Deut. 6:5
5	To fear Him	Deut. 10:20
6	To sanctify His Name	Lev. 22:32
7	Not to profane His Name	Lev. 22:32
8	Not to destroy objects associated with His Name	Deut. 12:4
9	To listen to the prophet speaking in His Name	Deut. 18:15
10	Not to test the prophet unduly	Deut. 6:16

Laws of Character
11	To emulate His ways	Deut. 28:9
12	To cleave to those who know Him	Deut. 10:20
13	To love Jews	Lev. 19:18
14	To love converts	Deut. 10:19
15	Not to hate fellow Jews	Lev. 19:17
16	To reprove	Lev. 19:17
17	Not to embarrass others	Lev. 19:17
18	Not to oppress the weak	Ex. 21:22
19	Not to speak derogatorily of others	Lev. 19:16
20	Not to take revenge	Lev. 19:18
21	Not to bear a grudge	Lev. 19:18

Laws of Torah Study
22	To learn Torah	Deut. 6:7
23	To honor those who teach and know Torah	Lev. 19:32

Laws of Idolatry and Paganism
24	Not to inquire into idolatry	Lev. 19:4
25	Not to follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see	Num. 15:39
26	Not to blaspheme	Ex. 22:27
27	Not to worship idols in the manner they are worshiped	Ex. 20:5
28	Not to worship idols in the four ways we worship God	Ex. 20:5
29	Not to make an idol for yourself	Ex. 20:4
30	Not to make an idol for others	Lev. 19:4
31	Not to make human forms even for decorative purposes	Ex. 20:20
32	Not to turn a city to idolatry	Ex. 23:13
33	To burn a city that has turned to idol worship	Deut. 13:17
34	Not to rebuild it as a city	Deut. 13:17
35	Not to derive benefit from it	Deut. 13:18
36	Not to missionize an individual to idol worship	Deut. 13:12
37	Not to love the missionary	Deut. 13:9
38	Not to cease hating the missionary	Deut. 13:9
39	Not to save the missionary	Deut. 13:9
40	Not to say anything in his defense	Deut. 13:9
41	Not to refrain from incriminating him	Deut. 13:9
42	Not to prophesize in the name of idolatry	Deut. 13:14
43	Not to listen to a false prophet	Deut. 13:4
44	Not to prophesize falsely in the name of God	Deut. 18:20
45	Not to be afraid of killing the false prophet	Deut. 18:22
46	Not to swear in the name of an idol	Ex. 23:13
47	Not to perform ov (medium)	Lev. 19:31
48	Not to perform yidoni (magical seer)	Lev. 19:31
49	Not to pass your children through the fire to Molech	Lev. 18:21
50	Not to erect a column in a public place of worship	Deut. 16:22
51	Not to bow down on smooth stone	Lev. 26:1
52	Not to plant a tree in the Temple courtyard	Deut. 16:21
53	To destroy idols and their accessories	Deut. 12:2
54	Not to derive benefit from idols and their accessories	Deut. 7:26
55	Not to derive benefit from ornaments of idols	Deut. 7:25
56	Not to make a covenant with idolaters	Deut. 7:2
57	Not to show favor to them	Deut. 7:2
58	Not to let them dwell in our land	Ex. 23:33
59	Not to imitate them in customs and clothing	Lev. 20:23
60	Not to be superstitious	Lev. 19:26
61	Not to go into a trance to foresee events, etc.	Deut. 18:10
62	Not to engage in astrology	Lev. 19:26
63	Not to mutter incantations	Deut. 18:11
64	Not to attempt to contact the dead	Deut. 18:11
65	Not to consult the ov	Deut. 18:11
66	Not to consult the yidoni	Deut. 18:11
67	Not to perform acts of magic	Deut. 18:10
68	Men must not shave the hair off the sides of their head	Lev. 19:27
69	Men must not shave their beards with a razor	Lev. 19:27
70	Men must not wear women's clothing	Deut. 22:5
71	Women must not wear men's clothing	Deut. 22:5
72	Not to tattoo the skin	Lev. 19:28
73	Not to tear the skin in mourning	Deut. 14:1
74	Not to make a bald spot in mourning	Deut. 14:1

Laws of Repentance
75	To repent and confess wrongdoings	Num. 5:7

BOOK TWO: THE BOOK OF LOVE OF GOD

Laws of Reading the Shema
76	To say the Shema twice daily	Deut. 6:7

Laws of Prayer and Kohanic Blessings
77	To serve the Almighty with prayer daily	Ex. 23:25
78	The Kohanim must bless the Jewish nation daily	Num. 6:23

Laws of Tefillin, Mezuza and Sefer Torah
79	To wear tefillin on the head	Deut. 6:8
80	To bind tefillin on the arm	Deut. 6:8
81	To put a mezuzah on each door post	Deut. 6:9
82	Each male must write a Sefer Torah	Deut. 31:19
83	The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself	Deut. 17:18

Laws of Tzitzit
84	To have tzitzit on four-cornered garments	Num. 15:38

Laws of Blessings
85	To bless the Almighty after eating	Deut. 8:10

Laws of Circumcision
86	To circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth	Lev. 12:3

BOOK THREE: THE BOOK OF SEASONS

Laws of the Sabbath
87	To rest on the seventh day	Ex. 23:12
88	Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day	Ex. 20:10
89	The court must not inflict punishment on Shabbat	Ex. 35:3
90	Not to walk outside the city boundary on Shabbat	Ex. 16:29
91	To sanctify the day with Kiddush and Havdallah	Ex. 20:8

Laws of Eruvin (Rabbinical)

Laws of Yom Kippur Rest
92	To rest from prohibited labor	Lev. 23:32
93	Not to do prohibited labor on Yom Kippur	Lev. 23:32
94	To afflict yourself on Yom Kippur	Lev. 16:29
95	Not to eat or drink on Yom Kippur	Lev. 23:29

Laws of Festival Rest
96	To rest on the first day of Passover	Lev. 23:7
97	Not to do prohibited labor on the first day of Passover	Lev. 23:8
98	To rest on the seventh day of Passover	Lev. 23:8
99	Not to do prohibited labor on the seventh day of Passover	Lev. 23:8
100	To rest on Shavuot	Lev. 23:21
101	Not to do prohibited labor on Shavuot	Lev. 23:21
102	To rest on Rosh Hashana	Lev. 23:24
103	Not to do prohibited labor on Rosh Hashana	Lev. 23:25
104	To rest on Sukkot	Lev. 23:35
105	Not to do prohibited labor on Sukkot	Lev. 23:35
106	To rest on Shmini Atzeret	Lev. 23:36
107	Not to do prohibited labor on Shmini Atzeret	Lev. 23:36

Laws of Chometz and Matzah
108	Not to eat chametz on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nissan	Deut. 16:3
109	To destroy all chametz on 14th day of Nissan	Ex. 12:15
110	Not to eat chametz all seven days of Passover	Ex. 13:3
111	Not to eat mixtures containing chametz all seven days of Passover	Ex. 12:20
112	Not to see chametz in your domain seven days	Ex. 13:7
113	Not to find chametz in your domain seven days	Ex. 12:19
114	To eat matzah on the first night of Passover	Ex. 12:18
115	To relate the exodus from Egypt on that night	Ex. 13:8

Laws of Shofar, Sukkah, Lulav
116	To hear the Shofar on the first day of Tishrei (Rosh Hashana)	Num. 29:1
117	To dwell in a Sukkah for the seven days of Sukkot	Lev. 23:42
118	To take up a Lulav and Etrog all seven days	Lev. 23:40

Laws of Shekalim
119	Each man must give a half shekel annually	Ex. 30:13

Laws of Sanctification of Months
120	Courts must calculate to determine when a new month begins	Ex. 12:2

Laws of Fasts
121	To afflict and cry out before God in times of catastrophe	Num. 10:9

Laws of Megillah and Chanukah (Rabbinical)

BOOK FOUR: THE BOOK OF WOMEN

Laws of Marriage
122	To marry a wife by means of ketubah and kiddushin	Deut. 22:13
123	Not to have relations with women not thus married	Deut. 23:18
124	Not to withhold food, clothing, and relations from your wife	Ex. 21:10
125	To have children with one's wife	Gen 1:28

Laws of Divorce
126	To issue a divorce by means of a "get" document	Deut. 24:1
127	A man must not remarry his wife after she has married someone else	Deut. 24:4

Laws of Yivum and Chalitzah (Levirate Marriage)
128	To do yibum (marry childless brother's widow)	Deut. 25:5
129	To do chalitzah (freeing a widow from yibum)	Deut. 25:9
130	The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed	Deut. 25:5

Laws of Women
131	The court must fine one who seduces a maiden	Ex. 22:15-16
132	The rapist must marry the maiden (if she chooses)	Deut. 22:29
133	He is not allowed to divorce her	Deut. 22:29
134	The slanderer must remain married to his wife	Deut. 22:19
135	He must not divorce her	Deut. 22:19

Laws of Sotah (Suspect Wife)
136	To fulfill the laws of the Sotah	Num. 5:30
137	Not to put oil on her meal offering	Num. 5:15
138	Not to put frankincense on her meal offering	Num. 5:15

BOOK FIVE: THE BOOK OF HOLINESS

Laws of Forbidden Relations
139	Not to have relations with your mother	Lev. 18:7
140	Not to have relations with your father's wife	Lev. 18:8
141	Not to have relations with your sister	Lev. 18:9
142	Not to have relations with your father's wife's daughter	Lev. 18:11
143	Not to have relations with your son's daughter	Lev. 18:10
144	Not to have relations with your daughter	Lev. 18:10
145	Not to have relations with your daughter's daughter	Lev. 18:10
146	Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter	Lev. 18:17
147	Not to have relations with a woman and her son's daughter	Lev. 18:17
148	Not to have relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter	Lev. 18:17
149	Not to have relations with your father's sister	Lev. 18:12
150	Not to have relations with your mother's sister	Lev. 18:13
151	Not to have relations with your father's brother's wife	Lev. 18:14
152	Not to have relations with your son's wife	Lev. 18:15
153	Not to have relations with your brother's wife	Lev. 18:16
154	Not to have relations with your wife's sister	Lev. 18:18
155	A man must not have relations with a beast	Lev. 18:23
156	A woman must not have relations with a beast	Lev. 18:23
157	Not to have homosexual relations	Lev. 18:22
158	Not to have homosexual relations with your father	Lev. 18:7
159	Not to have homosexual relations with your father's brother	Lev. 18:14
160	Not to have relations with a married woman	Lev. 18:20
161	Not to have relations with a menstrually impure woman	Lev. 18:19
162	Not to marry non-Jews	Deut. 7:3
163	Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry into the Jewish people	Deut. 23:4
164	Don't keep a third generation Egyptian convert from marrying into the Jewish people	Deut. 23:8-9
165	Not to refrain from marrying a third generation Edomite convert	Deut. 23:8-9
166	Not to let a mamzer marry into the Jewish people	Deut. 23:3
167	Not to let a eunuch marry into the Jewish people	Deut. 23:2
168	Not to castrate any male (including animals)	Lev. 22:24
169	The High Priest must not marry a widow	Lev. 21:14
170	The High Priest must not have relations with a widow even outside of marriage	Lev. 21:15
171	The High Priest must marry a virgin maiden	Lev. 21:13
172	A Kohen must not marry a divorcee	Lev. 21:7
173	A Kohen must not marry a zonah (a woman who had forbidden relations)	Lev. 21:7
174	A priest must not marry a chalalah (party to or product of 169-172)	Lev. 21:7
175	Not to make pleasurable contact with any forbidden woman	Lev. 18:6

Laws of Forbidden Foods
176	To examine the signs of animals to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher	Lev. 11:2
177	To examine the signs of fowl to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher	Deut. 14:11
178	To examine the signs of fish to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher	Lev. 11:9
179	To examine the signs of locusts to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher	Lev. 11:21
180	Not to eat non-kosher animals	Lev. 11:4
181	Not to eat non-kosher fowl	Lev. 11:13
182	Not to eat non-kosher fish	Lev. 11:11
183	Not to eat non-kosher flying insects	Deut. 14:19
184	Not to eat non-kosher creatures that crawl on land	Lev. 11:41
185	Not to eat non-kosher maggots	Lev. 11:44
186	Not to eat worms found in fruit on the ground	Lev. 11:42
187	Not to eat creatures that live in water other than fish	Lev. 11:43
188	Not to eat the meat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter	Deut. 14:21
189	Not to benefit from an ox condemned to be stoned	Ex. 21:28
190	Not to eat meat of an animal that was mortally wounded	Ex. 22:30
191	Not to eat a limb torn off a living creature	Deut 12:23
192	Not to eat blood	Lev. 3:17
193	Not to eat certain fats of clean animals	Lev. 3:17
194	Not to eat the sinew of the thigh	Gen. 32:33
195	Not to eat meat and milk cooked together	Ex. 23:19
196	Not to cook meat and milk together	Ex. 34:26
197	Not to eat bread from new grain before the Omer	Lev. 23:14
198	Not to eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer	Lev. 23:14
199	Not to eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer	Lev. 23:14
200	Not to eat fruit of a tree during its first three years	Lev. 19:23
201	Not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard	Deut. 22:9
202	Not to eat untithed fruits	Lev. 22:15
203	Not to drink wine poured in service to idols	Deut. 32:38

Laws of Slaughtering
204	To ritually slaughter an animal before eating it	Deut. 12:21
205	Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day	Lev. 22:28
206	To cover the blood (of a slaughtered beast or fowl) with earth	Lev. 17:13
207	Not to take the mother bird from her children	Deut. 22:6
208	To release the mother bird if she was taken from the nest	Deut. 22:7

BOOK SIX: THE BOOK OF OATHS

Laws of Oaths
209	Not to swear falsely in God's Name	Lev. 19:12
210	Not to take God's Name in vain	Ex. 20:7
211	Not to deny possession of something entrusted to you	Lev. 19:11
212	Not to swear in denial of a monetary claim	Lev. 19:11
213	To swear in God's Name to confirm the truth when deemed necessary by court	Deut. 10:20

Laws of Vows
214	To fulfill what was uttered and to do what was avowed	Deut. 23:24
215	Not to break oaths or vows	Num. 30:3
216	For oaths and vows annulled, there are the laws of annulling vows explicit in the Torah	Num. 30:3

Laws of The Nazir
217	The Nazir must let his hair grow	Num. 6:5
218	He must not cut his hair	Num. 6:5
219	He must not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar	Num. 6:3
220	He must not eat fresh grapes	Num. 6:3
221	He must not eat raisins	Num. 6:3
222	He must not eat grape seeds	Num. 6:4
223	He must not eat grape skins	Num. 6:4
224	He must not be under the same roof as a corpse	Num. 6:6
225	He must not come into contact with the dead	Num. 6:7
226	He must shave after bringing sacrifices upon completion of his Nazirite period	Num. 6:9

Laws of Estimated Values and Vows
227	To estimate the value of people as determined by the Torah	Lev. 27:2
228	To estimate the value of consecrated animals	Lev. 27:12-13
229	To estimate the value of consecrated houses	Lev. 27:14
230	To estimate the value of consecrated fields	Lev. 27:16
231	Carry out the laws of interdicting possessions (cherem)	Lev. 27:28
232	Not to sell the cherem	Lev. 27:28
233	Not to redeem the cherem	Lev. 27:28

BOOK SEVEN: THE BOOK OF SEEDS

Laws of Mixed Species
234	Not to plant diverse seeds together	Lev. 19:19
235	Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard	Deut. 22:9
236	Not to crossbreed animals	Lev. 19:19
237	Not to work different animals together	Deut. 22:10
238	Not to wear sha'atnez, a cloth woven of wool and linen	Deut. 22:11

Laws of Gifts to the Poor
239	To leave a corner of the field uncut for the poor	Lev. 19:10
240	Not to reap that corner	Lev. 19:9
241	To leave gleanings	Lev. 19:9
242	Not to gather the gleanings	Lev. 19:9
243	To leave the gleanings of a vineyard	Lev. 19:10
244	Not to gather the gleanings of a vineyard	Lev. 19:10
245	To leave the unformed clusters of grapes	Lev. 19:10
246	Not to pick the unformed clusters of grapes	Lev. 19:10
247	To leave the forgotten sheaves in the field	Deut. 24:19
248	Not to retrieve them	Deut. 24:19
249	To separate the tithe for the poor	Deut. 14:28
250	To give charity	Deut. 15:8
251	Not to withhold charity from the poor	Deut. 15:7
252	To set aside Trumah Gedolah (tithe for the Kohen)	Deut. 18:4
253	The Levite must set aside a tenth of his tithe	Num. 18:26
254	Not to preface one tithe to the next, but separate them in their proper order	Ex. 22:28
255	A non-Kohen must not eat Trumah	Lev. 22:10
256	A hired worker or a Jewish bondsman of a Kohen must not eat Trumah	Lev. 22:10
257	An uncircumcised Kohen must not eat Trumah	Ex.12:48
258	An impure Kohen must not eat Trumah	Lev. 22:4
259	A chalalah must not eat Trumah	Lev. 22:12

Laws of Ma'aser
260	To set aside Ma'aser each planting year and give it to a Levite	Num. 18:24

Laws of The Second Tithe and Fourth Year Produce
261	To set aside the second tithe (Ma'aser Sheni)	Deut. 14:22
262	Not to spend its redemption money on anything but food, drink, or ointment	Deut. 26:14
263	Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni while impure	Deut. 26:14
264	A mourner on the first day after death must not eat Ma'aser Sheni	Deut. 26:14
265	Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni grains outside Jerusalem	Deut. 12:17
266	Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni wine products outside Jerusalem	Deut. 12:17
267	Not to eat Ma'aser Sheni oil outside Jerusalem	Deut. 12:17
268	The fourth year crops must be totally for holy purposes like Ma'aser Sheni	Lev. 19:24
269	To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year	Deut. 26:13

Laws of First Fruits and other Kohanic Gifts
270	To set aside the first fruits and bring them to the Temple	Ex. 23:19
271	The Kohanim must not eat the first fruits outside Jerusalem	Deut. 12:17
272	To read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation	Deut. 26:5
273	To set aside a portion of dough for a Kohen	Num. 15:20
274	To give the shoulder, two cheeks, and stomach of slaughtered animals to a Kohen	Deut. 18:3
275	To give the first sheering of sheep to a Kohen	Deut. 18:4
276	To redeem the firstborn sons and give the money to a Kohen	Num. 18:15
277	To redeem the firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen	Ex. 13:13
278	To break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it	Ex. 13:13

Laws of The Sabbatical and Jubilee Years
279	To rest the land during the seventh year by not doing any work which enhances growth	Ex. 34:21
280	Not to work the land during the seventh year	Lev. 25:4
281	Not to work with trees to produce fruit during that year	Lev. 25:4
282	Not to reap crops that grow wild that year in the normal manner	Lev. 25:5
283	Not to gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal way	Lev. 25:5
284	To leave free all produce which grew in that year	Ex. 23:11
285	To release all loans during the seventh year	Deut. 15:2
286	Not to pressure or claim from the borrower	Deut. 15:2
287	Not to refrain from lending immediately before the release of the loans for fear of monetary loss	Deut. 15:9
288	The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years	Lev. 25:8
289	The Sanhedrin must sanctify the fiftieth year	Lev. 25:10
290	To blow the Shofar on the tenth of Tishrei to free the slaves	Lev. 25:9
291	Not to work the soil during the fiftieth year	Lev. 25:11
292	Not to reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year	Lev. 25:11
293	Not to pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year	Lev. 25:11
294	Carry out the laws of sold family properties	Lev. 25:24
295	Not to sell the land in Israel indefinitely	Lev. 25:23
296	Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities	Lev. 25:29
297	The Tribe of Levi must not be given a portion of the land in Israel, rather they are given cities to dwell in	Deut. 18:1
298	The Levites must not take a share in the spoils of war	Deut. 18:1
299	To give the Levites cities to inhabit and their surrounding fields	Num. 35:2
300	Not to sell the fields but they shall remain the Levites' before and after the Jubilee year	Lev. 25:34

BOOK EIGHT: THE BOOK OF SERVICE

Laws of The Temple
301	To build a Sanctuary	Ex. 25:8
302	Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal	Ex. 20:22
303	Not to climb steps to the altar	Ex. 20:23
304	To show reverence to the Temple	Lev. 1930
305	To guard the Temple area	Num. 18:2
306	Not to leave the Temple unguarded	Num. 18:5

Laws of Temple Vessels and Employees
307	To prepare the anointing oil	Ex. 30:31
308	Not to reproduce the anointing oil	Ex. 30:32
309	Not to anoint with anointing oil	Ex. 30:32
310	Not to reproduce the incense formula	Ex. 30:37
311	Not to burn anything on the Golden Altar besides incense	Ex. 30:9
312	The Levites must transport the ark on their shoulders	Num. 7:9
313	Not to remove the staves from the ark	Ex. 25:15
314	The Levites must work in the Temple	Num. 18:23
315	No Levite must do another's work of either a Kohen or a Levite	Num. 18:3
316	To dedicate the Kohen for service	Lev. 21:8
317	The kohanic work shifts must be equal during holidays	Deut. 18:6-8
318	The Kohanim must wear their priestly garments during service	Ex. 28:2
319	Not to tear the priestly garments	Ex. 28:32
320	The breastplate must not be loosened from the Efode	Ex. 28:28

Laws of Entering the Temple
321	A Kohen must not enter the Temple intoxicated	Lev. 10:9
322	A Kohen must not enter the Temple with long hair	Lev. 10:6
323	A Kohen must not enter the Temple with torn clothes	Lev. 10:6
324	A Kohen must not enter the Temple indiscriminately	Lev. 16:2
325	A Kohen must not leave the Temple during service	Lev. 10:7
326	To send the impure from the Temple	Num. 5:2
327	Impure people must not enter the Temple	Num. 5:3
328	Impure people must not enter the Temple Mount area	Deut. 23:11
329	Impure Kohanim must not do service in the temple	Lev. 22:2
330	An impure Kohen, following immersion, must wait until after sundown before returning to service	Lev. 22:7
331	A Kohen must wash his hands and feet before service	Ex. 30:19
332	A Kohen with a physical blemish must not enter the sanctuary or approach the altar	Lev. 21:23
333	A Kohen with a physical blemish must not serve	Lev.21:17
334	A Kohen with a temporary blemish must not serve	Lev. 21:17
335	One who is not a Kohen must not serve	Num. 18:4

Laws of Restrictions Concerning Sacrifices
336	To offer only unblemished animals	Lev. 22:21
337	Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar	Lev. 22:20
338	Not to slaughter it	Lev. 22:22
339	Not to sprinkle its blood	Lev. 22:24
340	Not to burn its fat	Lev. 22:22
341	Not to offer a temporarily blemished animal	Deut. 17:1
342	Not to sacrifice blemished animals even if offered by non-Jews	Lev. 22:25
343	Not to inflict wounds upon dedicated animals	Lev. 22:21
344	To redeem dedicated animals which have become disqualified	Deut. 12:15
345	To offer only animals which are at least eight days old	Lev. 22:27
346	Not to offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot or the animal exchanged for a dog	Deut. 23:19
347	Not to burn honey or yeast on the altar	Lev. 2:11
348	To salt all sacrifices	Lev. 2:13
349	Not to omit the salt from sacrifices	Lev. 2:13

Laws of Sacrificial Procedure
350	Carry out the procedure of the burnt offering as prescribed in the Torah	Lev. 1:3
351	Not to eat its meat	Deut. 12:17
352	Carry out the procedure of the sin offering	Lev. 6:18
353	Not to eat the meat of the inner sin offering	Lev. 6:23
354	Not to decapitate a fowl brought as a sin offering	Lev. 5:8
355	Carry out the procedure of the guilt offering	Lev. 7:1
356	The Kohanim must eat the sacrificial meat in the Temple	Ex. 29:33
357	The Kohanim must not eat the meat outside the Temple courtyard	Deut. 12:17
358	A non-Kohen must not eat sacrificial meat	Ex. 29:33
359	To follow the procedure of the peace offering	Lev. 7:11
360	Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood	Deut. 12:17
361	To bring meal offerings as prescribed in the Torah	Lev. 2:1
362	Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers	Lev. 5:11
363	Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers	Lev. 5:11
364	Not to eat the meal offering of the High Priest	Lev. 6:16
365	Not to bake a meal offering as leavened bread	Lev. 6:10
366	The Kohanim must eat the remains of the meal offerings	Lev. 6:9
367	To bring all avowed and freewill offerings to the Temple on the first subsequent festival	Deut. 12:5-6
368	Not to withhold payment incurred by any vow	Deut. 23:22
369	To offer all sacrifices in the Temple	Deut. 12:11
370	To bring all sacrifices from outside Israel to the Temple	Deut. 12:26
371	Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard	Lev. 17:4
372	Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard	Deut. 12:13

Laws of Constant and Additional Offerings
373	To offer two lambs every day	Num. 28:3
374	To light a fire on the altar every day	Lev. 6:6
375	Not to extinguish this fire	Lev. 6:6
376	To remove the ashes from the altar every day	Lev. 6:3
377	To burn incense every day	Ex 30:7
378	To light the Menorah every day	Ex. 27:21
379	The Kohen Gadol must bring a meal offering every day	Lev. 6:13
380	To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on Shabbat	Num 28:9
381	To make the show bread	Ex. 25:30
382	To bring additional offerings on the New Month	Num. 28:11
383	To bring additional offerings on Passover	Num. 28:19
384	To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat	Lev. 23:10
385	Each man must count the Omer - seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought	Lev. 23:15
386	To bring additional offerings on Shavuot	Num. 28:26
387	To bring two leaves to accompany the above sacrifice	Lev. 23:17
388	To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana	Num. 29:2
389	To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur	Num. 29:8
390	To bring additional offerings on Sukkot	Num. 29:13
391	To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret	Num. 29:35

Laws of Disqualified Offerings
392	Not to eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished	Deut. 14.3
393	Not to eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions	Lev. 7:18
394	Not to leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them	Lev. 22:30
395	Not to eat from that which was left over	Lev. 19:8
396	Not to eat from sacrifices which became impure	Lev. 7:19
397	An impure person must not eat from sacrifices	Lev. 7:20
398	To burn the leftover sacrifices	Lev. 7:17
399	To burn all impure sacrifices	Lev. 7:19

Laws of Yom Kippur Service
400	To follow the procedure of Yom Kippur in the sequence prescribed in Parshat Acharei Mot	Lev. 16:3

Laws of Misusing Sanctified Property
401	One who profaned property must repay what he profaned plus a fifth and bring a sacrifice	Lev. 5:16
402	Not to work consecrated animals	Deut. 15:19
403	Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals	Deut. 15:19

BOOK NINE: THE BOOK OF SACRIFICES

Laws of Pascal Sacrifice
404	To slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time	Ex. 12:6
405	Not to slaughter it while in possession of leaven	Ex. 23:18
406	Not to leave the fat overnight	Ex. 23:18
407	To slaughter the second paschal lamb	Num. 9:11
408	To eat the paschal lamb with matzah and Marror on the night of the 15th of Nissan	Ex. 12:8
409	To eat the second paschal lamb on the night of the 15th of Iyar	Num.9:11
410	Not to eat the paschal meat raw or boiled	Ex. 12:9
411	Not to take the paschal meat from the confines of the group	Ex. 12:46
412	An apostate must not eat from it	Ex.12:43
413	A permanent or temporary hired worker must not eat from it	Ex. 12:45
414	An uncircumcised male must not eat from it	Ex. 12:48
415	Not to break any bones from the paschal offering	Ex. 12:46
416	Not to break any bones from the second paschal offering	Num. 9:12
417	Not to leave any meat from the paschal offering over until morning	Ex. 12:10
418	Not to leave the second paschal meat over until morning	Num. 9:12
419	Not to leave the meat of the holiday offering of the 14th until the 16th	Deut. 16:4

Laws of Pilgrim Offerings
420	To be seen at the Temple on Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot	Deut. 16:16
421	To celebrate on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering)	Ex. 23:14
422	To rejoice on these three Festivals (bring a peace offering)	Deut. 16:14
423	Not to appear at the Temple without offerings	Deut. 16:16
424	Not to refrain from rejoicing with, and giving gifts to, the Levites	Deut. 12:19
425	To assemble all the people on the Sukkot following the seventh year	Deut. 31:12

Laws of First Born Animals
426	To set aside the firstborn animals	Ex. 13:12
427	The Kohanim must not eat unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem	Deut. 12:17
428	Not to redeem the firstborn	Num. 18:17
429	Separate the tithe from animals	Lev. 27:32
430	Not to redeem the tithe	Lev. 27:33

Laws of Offerings for Unintentional Transgressions
431	Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression	Lev. 4:27
432	Bring an asham talui when uncertain of guilt	Lev. 5:17-18
433	Bring an asham vadai when guilt is ascertained	Lev. 5:25
434	Bring an oleh v'yored offering (if the person is wealthy, an animal; if poor, a bird or meal offering)	Lev. 5:7-11
435	The Sanhedrin must bring an offering when it rules in error	Lev. 4:13

Laws of Lacking Atonement
436	A woman who had a running issue must bring an offering after she goes to the Mikveh	Lev. 15:28-29
437	A woman who gave birth must bring an offering after she goes to the Mikveh	Lev. 12:6
438	A man who had a running issue must bring an offering after he goes to the Mikveh	Lev. 15:13-14
439	A metzora must bring an offering after going to the Mikveh	Lev. 14:10

Laws of Substitution of Sacrifices
440	Not to substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice	Lev. 27:10
441	The new animal, in addition to the substituted one, retains consecration	Lev. 27:10
442	Not to change consecrated animals from one type of offering to another	Lev. 27:26

BOOK TEN: THE BOOK OF PURITY

Laws of Impurity of Human Dead
443	Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead	Num. 19:14

Laws of The Red Heifer
444	Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer	Num. 19:2
445	Carry out the laws of the sprinkling water	Num. 19:21

Laws of Impurity through Tzara'at
446	Rule the laws of human tzara'at as prescribed in the Torah	Lev. 13:12
447	The metzora must not remove his signs of impurity	Deut. 24:8
448	The metzora must not shave signs of impurity in his hair	Lev. 13:33
449	The metzora must publicize his condition by tearing his garments, allowing his hair to grow and covering his lips	Lev. 13:45
450	Carry out the prescribed rules for purifying the metzora	Lev. 14:2
451	The metzora must shave off all his hair prior to purification	Lev. 14:9
452	Carry out the laws of tzara'at of clothing	Lev. 13:47
453	Carry out the laws of tzara'at of houses	Lev. 13:34

Laws of Impurity of Reclining and Sitting
454	Observe the laws of menstrual impurity	Lev. 15:19
455	Observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth	Lev. 12:2
456	Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman's running issue	Lev. 15:25
457	Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's running issue	Lev. 15:3

Laws of Other Sources of Impurity
458	Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast	Lev. 11:39
459	Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight shratzim	Lev. 11:29
460	Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission	Lev. 15:16

Laws of Impurity of Food
461	Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods	Lev. 11:34

Laws of Vessels (Rabbinical)

Laws of Mikveh
462	Every impure person must immerse himself in a Mikveh to become pure	Lev. 15:16

BOOK ELEVEN: THE BOOK OF DAMAGES

Laws of Property Damage
463	The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox	Ex. 21:28
464	The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating	Ex. 22:4
465	The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit	Ex. 21:33
466	The court must judge the damages incurred by fire	Ex. 22:5

Laws of Theft
467	Not to steal money stealthily	Lev. 19:11
468	The court must implement punitive measures against the thief	Ex. 21:37
469	Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate	Lev. 19:36
470	Not to commit injustice with scales and weights	Lev. 19:35
471	Not to possess inaccurate scales and weights even if they are not for use	Deut. 25:13
472	Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone's property	Deut. 19:14
473	Not to kidnap	Ex. 20:13

Laws of Robbery and Lost Objects
474	Not to rob openly	Lev. 19:13
475	Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt	Lev. 19:13
476	Not to covet and scheme to acquire another's possession	Ex. 20:14
477	Not to desire another's possession	Deut. 5:18
478	Return the robbed object or its value	Lev. 5:23
479	Not to ignore a lost object	Deut. 22:3
480	Return the lost object	Deut. 22:1
481	The court must implement laws against the one who assaults another or damages another's property	Ex. 21:18

Laws of Murder and Preservation of Life
482	Not to murder	Ex. 20:13
483	Not to accept monetary restitution to atone for the murderer	Num. 35:31
484	The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge	Num. 35:25
485	Not to accept monetary restitution instead of being sent to a city of refuge	Num. 35:32
486	Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial	Num. 35:12
487	Save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer	Deut. 25112
488	Not to pity the pursuer	Num. 35:12
489	Not to stand idly by if someone's life is in danger	Lev. 19:16
490	Designate cities of refuge and prepare routes of access	Deut. 19:3
491	Break the neck of a calf by the river valley following an unsolved murder	Deut. 21:4
492	Not to work nor plant that river valley	Deut. 21:4
493	Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property	Deut. 22:8
494	Make a guard rail around flat roofs	Deut. 22:8
495	Not to put a stumbling block before a blind man (nor give harmful advice)	Lev. 19:14
496	Help another remove the load from a beast which can no longer carry it	Ex. 23:5
497	Help others load their beast	Deut. 22:4
498	Not to leave others distraught with their burdens (but to help either load or unload)	Deut. 22:4

BOOK TWELVE: THE BOOK OF ACQUISITION

Laws of Sales
499	Buy and sell according to Torah law	Lev. 25:14
500	Not to overcharge or underpay for an article	Lev. 25:14
501	Not to insult or harm anybody with words	Lev. 25:17
502	Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily	Ex. 22:20
503	Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words	Ex. 22:20

Laws of Acquisitions and Gifts (Rabbinical)

Laws of Neighbors (Rabbinical)

Laws of Agents and Partners (Rabbinical)

Laws of Slaves
504	Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws	Ex. 21:2
505	Not to sell him as a slave is sold	Lev. 25:42
506	Not to work him oppressively	Lev. 25:43
507	Not to allow a non-Jew to work him oppressively	Lev. 25:53
508	Not to have him do menial slave labor	Lev. 25;39
509	Give him gifts when he goes free	Deut. 15:14
510	Not to send him away empty-handed	Deut. 15:13
511	Redeem Jewish maidservants	Ex. 21:8
512	Betroth the Jewish maidservant	Ex. 21:8
513	The master must not sell his maidservant	Ex. 21:8
514	Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs	Lev. 25:46
515	Not to extradite a slave who fled to Israel	Deut. 23:16
516	Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge	Deut. 23:16

BOOK THIRTEEN: THE BOOK OF JUDGEMENTS

Laws of Hiring
517	The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard	Ex. 22:9
518	Pay wages on the day they were earned	Deut. 24:15
519	Not to delay payment of wages past the agreed time	Lev. 19:13
520	The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works	Deut. 23:25
521	The worker must not eat while on hired time	Deut. 23:26
522	The worker must not take more than he can eat	Deut. 23:25
523	Not to muzzle an ox while plowing	Deut. 25:4

Laws of Borrowing and Depositing
524	The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower	Ex. 22:13
525	The courts must carry out the laws of an unpaid guard	Ex. 22:6

Laws of Creditor and Debtor
526	Lend to the poor and destitute	Ex. 22:24
527	Not to press them for payment if you know they don't have it	Ex. 22:24
528	Press the idolater for payment	Deut. 15:3
529	The creditor must not forcibly take collateral	Deut. 24:10
530	Return the collateral to the debtor when needed	Deut. 24:13
531	Not to delay its return when needed	Deut. 24:12
532	Not to demand collateral from a widow	Deut. 24:17
533	Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food	Deut. 24:6
534	Not to lend with interest	Lev.25:37
535	Not to borrow with interest	Deut. 23:20
536	Not to intermediate in an interest loan, guarantee, witness, or write the promissory note	Ex. 22:24
537	Lend to and borrow from idolaters with interest	Deut. 23:21

Laws of Plaintiff and Defendant
538	The courts must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter, or denier	Ex. 22:8

Laws of Inheritance
539	Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance	Num. 27:8

BOOK FOURTEEN: THE BOOK OF JUDGES

Laws of Sanhedrin and Punishments
540	Appoint judges	Deut. 16:18
541	Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure	Deut. 1:17
542	Decide by majority in case of disagreement	Ex. 23:2
543	The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required	Ex. 23:2
544	A judge who presented an acquittal plea must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases	Deut. 23:2
545	The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning	Deut. 22:24
546	The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning	Lev. 20:14
547	The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword	Ex. 21:20
548	The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation	Lev. 20:10
549	The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry	Deut. 21:22
550	Bury the executed on the day they are killed	Deut.21:23
551	Not to delay burial overnight	Deut. 21:23
552	The court must not let the sorcerer live	Ex. 22:17
553	The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer	Ex. 25:2
554	The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes	Deut. 25:3
555	The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence	Ex. 23:7
556	The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime	Deut. 22:26
557	A judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial	Deut. 19:13
558	A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial	Lev. 19:15
559	A judge must not respect the great man at the trial	Lev. 19:15
560	A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor	Ex. 23;6
561	A judge must not pervert justice	Lev. 19:15
562	A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or orphan	Deut. 24:17
563	Judge righteously	Lev. 19:15
564	The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment	Deut. 1:17
565	Judges must not accept bribes	Ex. 23:8
566	Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present	Ex. 23:1
567	Not to curse judges	Ex. 22:27
568	Not to curse the head of state or leader of the Sanhedrin	Ex. 22:27
569	Not to curse any upstanding Jew	Lev. 19:14

Laws of Evidence
570	Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court	Lev. 5:1
571	Carefully interrogate the witness	Deut. 13:15
572	A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes	Deut. 19:17
573	Not to accept testimony from a lone witness	Deut. 19:15
574	Transgressors must not testify	Ex. 23:1
575	Relatives of the litigants must not testify	Deut. 24:16
576	Not to testify falsely	Ex. 20:13
577	Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant	Deut. 19:19

Laws of Insurgents
578	Act according to the ruling of the Sanhedrin	Deut. 17:11
579	Not to deviate from the word of the Sanhedrin	Deut. 17:11
580	Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations	Deut. 13:1
581	Not to diminish from the Torah any commandments, in whole or in part	Deut. 13:1
582	Not to curse your father and mother	Ex. 21:17
583	Not to strike your father and mother	Ex. 21:15
584	Respect your father or mother	Ex. 20:12
585	Fear your father or mother	Lev. 19:3
586	Not to be a rebellious son	Deut. 21:18

Laws of Mourning
587	Mourn for relatives	Lev. 10:19
588	The High Priest must not defile himself for any relative	Lev. 21:11
589	The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse	Lev. 21:11
590	A Kohen must not defile himself for anyone except relatives	Lev. 21:1

Laws of Kings and their Wars
591	Appoint a king from Israel	Deut. 17:15
592	Not to appoint a convert	Deut. 17:15
593	The king must not have too many wives	Deut. 17:17
594	The king must not have too many horses	Deut. 17:16
595	The king must not have too much silver and gold	Deut. 17:17
596	Destroy the seven Canaanite nations	Deut. 20:17
597	Not to let any of them remain alive	Deut. 20:16
598	Wipe out the descendants of Amalek	Deut. 25:19
599	Remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people	Deut. 25:17
600	Not to forget Amalek's atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert	Deut. 25:19
601	Not to dwell permanently in Egypt	Deut. 17:16
602	Offer peace terms to the inhabitants of a city while holding siege, and treat them according to the Torah if they accept the terms	Deut. 20:10
603	Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them	Deut. 23:7
604	Not to destroy fruit trees even during the siege	Deut. 20:19
605	Prepare latrines outside the camps	Deut. 23:13
606	Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with	Deut. 23:14
607	Appoint a priest to speak with the soldiers during the war	Deut. 20:2
608	He who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard is given a year to rejoice with his possessions	Deut. 24:5
609	Not to demand from the above any involvement, communal or military	Deut. 24:5
610	Not to panic and retreat during battle	Deut. 20:3
611	Keep the laws of the captive woman	Deut. 21:11
612	Not to sell her into slavery	Deut. 21:14
613	Not to retain her for servitude after having relations with her	Deut. 21:14

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