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)
do not hearken to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of a dream, for Hashem, your God, is testing you to know whether you love Hashem, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.
Devarim 13:4
You shall not make a cut in your flesh for the dead, and a tattoo shall you not place upon yourselves – I am Hashem.
Vayikra 19:28
Do not follow the traditions of the nation that I expel from before you, for they did all of these and I was disgusted with them.
Vayikra 20:23
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 Speak to the entire congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy.
3 Every man shall fear his mother and his father, and you shall observe My Sabbaths. I am the Lord, your God.
4 You shall not turn to the worthless idols, nor shall you make molten deities for yourselves. I am the Lord, your God.
5 When you slaughter a peace offering to the Lord, you shall slaughter it for your acceptance.
6 It may be eaten on the day you slaughter it and on the morrow, but anything left over until the third day, shall be burned in fire.
7 And if it would be eaten on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
8 And whoever eats it shall bear his sin, because he has profaned what is holy to the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from his people.
9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not fully reap the corner of your field, nor shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest.
10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, nor shall you collect the [fallen] individual grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord, your God.
11 You shall not steal. You shall not deny falsely. You shall not lie, one man to his fellow.
12 You shall not swear falsely by My Name, thereby profaning the Name of your God. I am the Lord.
13 You shall not oppress your fellow. You shall not rob. The hired worker’s wage shall not remain with you overnight until morning.
14 You shall not curse a deaf person. You shall not place a stumbling block before a blind person, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord.
15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.
16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow’s blood. I am the Lord.
17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.
18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
19 You shall observe My statutes: You shall not crossbreed your livestock with different species. You shall not sow your field with a mixture of seeds, and a garment which has a mixture of shaatnez shall not come upon you.
20 If a man lies carnally with a woman, and she is a handmaid designated for a man, and she had not been [fully] redeemed nor had her document of emancipation been granted her, there shall be an investigation; they shall not be put to death, because she had not been [completely] freed.
21 He shall bring his guilt offering to the Lord, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, a guilt offering ram.
22 And the kohen shall effect atonement for him with the guilt offering ram, before the Lord, for the sin that he had committed; and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he had committed.
23 When you come to the Land and you plant any food tree, you shall surely block its fruit [from use]; it shall be blocked from you [from use] for three years, not to be eaten.
24 And in the fourth year, all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to the Lord.
25 And in the fifth year, you may eat its fruit; [do this, in order] to increase its produce for you. I am the Lord, your God.
26 You shall not eat over the blood. You shall not act on the basis of omens or lucky hours.
27 You shall not round off the corner of your head, and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard.
28 You shall not make cuts in your flesh for a person [who died]. You shall not etch a tattoo on yourselves. I am the Lord.
29 You shall not defile your daughter by making her a harlot, lest the Land fall into harlotry and the land be filled with immorality.
30 You shall observe My Sabbaths and revere My Sanctuary. I am the Lord.
31 You shall not turn to [the sorcery of] Ov or Yid’oni; you shall not seek [these and thereby] defile yourselves through them. I am the Lord, your God.
32 You shall rise before a venerable person and you shall respect the elderly, and you shall fear your God. I am the Lord.
33 When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not taunt him.
34 The stranger who sojourns with you shall be as a native from among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord, your God.
35 You shall not commit a perversion of justice with measures, weights, or liquid measures.
36 You shall have true scales, true weights, a true ephah, and a true hin. I am the Lord, your God, Who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 You shall observe all My statutes and all My ordinances, and fulfill them. I am the Lord.
1 The Levitic kohanim, the entire tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; the Lord’s fire offerings and His inheritance they shall eat.
2 But he shall have no inheritance among his brothers; the Lord is his inheritance, as He spoke to him.
3 And this shall be the kohanim’s due from the people, from those who perform a slaughter, be it an ox or a sheep, he shall give the kohen the foreleg, the jaws, and the maw.
4 The first of your grain, your wine, and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
5 For the Lord, your God, has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the Lord, he and his sons, all the days.
6 And if a Levite comes from one of your cities out of all Israel where he sojourns, he may come whenever his soul desires, to the place the Lord will choose,
7 and he may serve in the name of the Lord, his God, just like all his Levite brothers, who stand there before the Lord.
8 They shall eat equal portions, except what was sold by the forefathers.
9 When you have come to the land the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to do like the abominations of those nations.
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who passes his son or daughter through fire, a soothsayer, a diviner of [auspicious] times, one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,
11 or a charmer, a pithom sorcerer, a yido’a sorcerer, or a necromancer.
12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations, the Lord, your God is driving them out from before you.
13 Be wholehearted with the Lord, your God.
14 For these nations, which you are to possess, hearken to diviners of [auspicious] times and soothsayers, but as for you, the Lord, your God, has not given you [things] like these.
15 A prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, the Lord, your God will set up for you; you shall hearken to him.
16 According to all that you asked of the Lord, your God, in Horeb, on the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not continue to hear the voice of the Lord, my God, and let me no longer see this great fire, so that I will not die.”
17 And the Lord said to me, “They have done well in what they have spoken.
18 I will set up a prophet for them from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words into his mouth, and he will speak to them all that I command him.
19 And it will be, that whoever does not hearken to My words that he speaks in My name, I will exact [it] of him.
20 But the prophet who intentionally speaks a word in My name, which I did not command him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.
21 Now if you say to yourself, “How will we know the word that the Lord did not speak?”
22 If the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, and the thing does not occur and does not come about, that is the thing the Lord did not speak. The prophet has spoken it wantonly; you shall not be afraid of him.
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