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)
459. To sanctify the firstling of clean cattle and offer it up (Ex. 13:2; Deut. 15: 19)
460. To slay the Paschal lamb (Ex. 12:6)
461. To eat the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan (Ex. 12:8)
462. Not to eat the flesh of the Paschal lamb raw or sodden (Ex. 12:9)
463. Not to leave any portion of the flesh of the Paschal sacrifice until the morning unconsumed (Ex. 12:10)
464. Not to give the flesh of the Paschal lamb to an Israelite who had become an apostate (Ex. 12:43)
465. Not to give flesh of the Paschal lamb to a stranger who lives among you to eat (Ex. 12:45)
466. Not to take any of the flesh of the Paschal lamb from the company’s place of assembly (Ex. 12:46)
467. Not to break a bone of the Paschal lamb (Ex. 12:46)
468. That the uncircumcised shall not eat of the flesh of the Paschal Iamb (Ex.
12:48)
469. Not to slaughter the Paschal lamb while there is leaven in the home (Ex. 23:18; Ex. 24:25)
470. Not to leave the part of the Paschal lamb that should be burnt on the altar until the morning, when it will no longer be fit to be burnt (Ex. 23:18; Ex. 24:25)
471. Not to go up to the Sanctuary for the festival without bringing an offering (Ex. 23:15)
472. To bring the first fruits to the Sanctuary (Ex. 23: 19)
473. That the flesh of a sin-offering and guilt-offering shall be eaten (Ex. 29: 33)
474. That one not of the seed of Aaron, shall not eat the flesh of the holy sacrifices (Ex. 29:33)
475. To observe the procedure of the burnt-offering (Lev. 1: 3) 476.To observe the procedure of the meal-offering (Lev. 2: 1)
477. Not to offer up leaven or honey (Lev. 2:11)
478. That every sacrifice be salted (Lev. 2:13)
479. Not to offer up any offering unsalted (Lev. 2:13)
480. That the Court of Judgment shall offer up a sacrifice if they have erred in a judicial pronouncement (Lev. 4:13)
481. That an individual shall bring a sin-offering if he has sinned in error by committing a transgression (Lev. 4:27-28)
482. To offer a sacrifice of varying value in accordance with one’s means (Lev.
483. Not to sever completely the head of a fowl brought as a sin-offering (Lev.
484. Not to put olive oil in a sin-offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
485. Not to put frankincense on a sin-offering made of flour (Lev. 5:11)
486. That an individual shall bring an offering if he is in doubt as to whether he has committed a sin for which one has to bring a sin-offering. (Lev.5:17-19)
487. That the remainder of the meal offerings shall be eaten (Lev.6:9)
488. Not to allow the remainder of the meal offerings to become leavened (Lev.
6:10)
489. That the High Priest [Heb. Kohein] shall offer a meal offering daily (Lev. 6:13)
490. Not to eat of the meal offering brought by Aaron and his sons (Lev.6: 16)
491. To observe the procedure of the sin-offering (Lev. 6: 18)
492. Not to eat of the flesh of sin offerings, the blood of which is brought within the Sanctuary and sprinkled towards the Veil (Lev. 6:23)
493. To observe the procedure of the guilt-offering (Lev. 7: 1)
494. To observe the procedure of the peace-offering (Lev. 7:11)
495. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has remained over (Lev. 7: 17)
496. Not to eat of sacrifices that are eaten beyond the appointed time for eating them (Lev. 7:18)
497. Not to eat of holy things that have become unclean (Lev, 7:19)
498. To burn meat of the holy sacrifice that has become unclean (Lev. 7:19)
499. That a person who is unclean shall not eat of things that are holy (Lev. 7:20)
500. A Priest’s daughter who profaned herself shall not eat of the holy things, neither of the heave offering nor of the breast, nor of the shoulder of peace offerings (Lev. 10:14, Lev. 22:12)
501. That a woman after childbirth shall bring an offering when she is clean (Lev. 12:6)
502. That the leper shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed (Lev. 14:10)
503. That a man having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after he is cleansed of his issue (Lev. 15:13-15)
504. That a woman having an issue shall bring a sacrifice after she is cleansed of her issue (Lev. 15:28-30)
505. To observe, on Yom Kippur, the service appointed for that day, regarding the sacrifice, confessions, sending away of the scapegoat, etc. (Lev. 16:3-34)
506. Not to slaughter beasts set apart for sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary) (Lev. 17:3-4)
507. Not to eat flesh of a sacrifice that has been left over (beyond the time appointed for its consumption) (Lev. 19:8)
508. Not to sanctify blemished cattle for sacrifice on the altar (Lev. 22:20) This text prohibits such beasts being set apart for sacrifice on the altar
509. That every animal offered up shall be without blemish (Lev. 22:21)
510. Not to inflict a blemish on cattle set apart for sacrifice (Lev. 22:21)
511. Not to slaughter blemished cattle as sacrifices (Lev. 22:22)
512. Not to burn the limbs of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev. 22:22)
513. Not to sprinkle the blood of blemished cattle upon the altar (Lev. 22:24)
514. Not to offer up a blemished beast that comes from non-Israelites (Lev. 22:25)
515. That sacrifices of cattle can only take place when they are at least eight days old (Lev. 22:27)
516. Not to leave any flesh of the thanksgiving offering until the morning (Lev. 22:30)
517. To offer up the meat-offering of the Omer on the morrow after the first day
of Passover, together with one lamb (Lev. 23: 10)
518. Not to eat bread made of new grain before the Omer of barley has been offered up on the second day of Passover (Lev. 23: 14)
519. Not to eat roasted grain of the new produce before that time (Lev. 23:14)
520. Not to eat fresh ears of the new grain before that time (Lev.23: 14)
521. To bring on wave loaves of bread together with the sacrifices which are then offered up in connection with the loaves [Pentecost feast] (Lev. 23:17-20)
522. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Passover (Lev. 23:36)
523. That one who vows to the Lord the monetary value of a person shall pay the amount appointed in the Scriptural portion (Lev.27:2-8)
524. 1f a beast is exchanged for one that had been set apart as an offering, both become sacred (Lev. 27: 10)
525. Not to exchange a beast set aside for sacrifice (Lev. 27: 10)
526. That one who vows to the Lord the monetary value of an unclean beast shall pay its value (Lev. 27:11-13)
527. That one who vows the value of a his house shall pay according to the appraisal of the Priest (Lev. 27:11-13)
528. That one who sanctifies to the Lord a portion of his field shall pay according to the estimation appointed in the Scriptural portion (Lev. 27:16-24)
529. Not to transfer a beast set apart for sacrifice from one class of sacrifices to another (Lev. 27: 26)
530. To decide in regard to dedicated property as to which is sacred to the Lord and which belongs to the Priest (Lev. 27: 28)
531. Not to sell a field devoted to the Lord (Lev. 27: 28)
532. Not to redeem a field devoted to the Lord (Lev. 27: 28)
533. To make confession before the Lord of any sin that one has committed, when bringing a sacrifice and at other times (Num. 5:6-7)
534. Not to put olive oil in the meal-offering of a woman suspected of adultery (Num. 5:15)
535. Not to put frankincense on it (Num. 5:15)
536. To offer up the regular sacrifices daily (two lambs as burnt offerings) (Num. 28:3)
537. To offer up an additional sacrifice every Sabbath (two Iambs) (Num. 28:9)
538. To offer up an additional sacrifice every New Moon (Num. 28: 11)
539. To bring an additional offering on the day of the first fruits [Pentecost] (Num. 28:26-27)
540. To offer up an additional sacrifice on [Feast of Trumpets] or Rosh Hashanah (Num.29:1-6)
541. To offer up an additional sacrifice on the day of Atonement or Yom Kippur (Num. 29:7-8)
542. To offer up an additional sacrifice on Feast of Tabernacles [Heb. Sukkot] (Num. 29:12-34)
543. To offer up an additional offering on the eighth day after the feast of Tabernacles called (Heb. Shemini Atzeret), which is a festival by itself (Num. 29:35-38)
544. To bring all offerings, whether obligatory or freewill, on the first festival after these were incurred (Deut. 12:5-6)
545. Not to offer up sacrifices outside (the Sanctuary) (Deut. 12: 13)
546. To offer all sacrifices in the Sanctuary (Deut. 12:14)
547. To redeem cattle set apart for sacrifices that contracted disqualifying blemishes, after which they may be eaten by anyone. (Deut, 12:15)
548. Not to eat of the unblemished firstling outside Jerusalem (Deut. 12:17)
549. Not to eat the flesh of the burnt-offering (Deut. 12:17). This is a Prohibition applying to every trespasser, not to enjoy any of the holy things.
550. That the sons of Aaron [i.e., his descendents] shall not eat the flesh of the sin-offering or guilt-offering outside the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary) (Deut.12:17)
551. Not to eat of the flesh of the sacrifices that are holy in a minor degree, before the blood has been sprinkled (on the altar), (Deut. 12:17)
552. That the Priest shall not eat the first-fruits before they are set down in the Courtyard (of the Sanctuary) (Deut. 12:17)
553. To take trouble to bring sacrifices to the Sanctuary from places outside the land of Israel (Deut. 12:26)
554. Not to eat the flesh of beasts set apart as sacrifices, that have been rendered unfit to be offered up by deliberately inflicted blemish (Deut. 14: 3)
555. Not to do work with cattle set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15:19)
556. Not to shear beasts set apart for sacrifice (Deut. 15: 19)
557. Not to leave any portion of the festival offering brought on the fourteenth of Nissan unto the third day (Deut. 16:4)
558. Not to offer up a beast that has a temporary blemish (Deut. 17: 1)
559. Not to bring sacrifices out of the hire of a harlot or price of a dog (apparently a euphemism for sodomy) (Deut. 23:19)
560. To read the portion prescribed on bringing the first fruits (Deut. 26:5-10)
561. That eight species of creeping things defile by contact (Lev. 11:29-30)
562. That foods become defiled by contact with unclean things (Lev. 11:34)
563. That anyone who touches the carcass of a beast that died of itself shall be unclean (Lev. 11:39)
564. That a lying-in woman is unclean like a menstruating woman (in terms of uncleanness) (Lev. 12:2-5)
565. That a leper is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:2-46)
566. That the leper shall be universally recognized as such by the prescribed marks So too, all other unclean persons should declare themselves as such (Lev. 13:45)
567. That a leprous garment is unclean and defiles (Lev. 13:47-49)
568. That a leprous house defiles (Lev. 14:34-46)
569. That a man, having a running issue, defiles (Lev. 15:1-15)
570. That the seed of copulation defiles (Lev. 15:16)
571. That purification from all kinds of defilement shall be effected by ceremonial washing (Lev. 15:16)
572. That a menstruating woman is unclean and defiles others (Lev. 15:19-24)
573. That a woman, having a running issue, defiles (Lev. 15:25-27)
574. To carry out the ordinance of the Red Heifer so that its ashes will always be available (Num. 19:9)
575. That a corpse defiles (Num. 19:11-16)
576. That the waters of separation defile one who is clean, and cleanse the unclean from pollution by a dead body (Num. 19:19-22)
577. Not to drove off the hair of the scall (Lev. 13:33)
578. That the procedure of cleansing leprosy, whether of a man or of a house, takes place with cedar-wood, hyssop, scarlet thread, two birds, and running water (Lev. 14:1-7)
579. That the leper shall shave all his hair (Lev. 14: 9)
580. Not to pluck out the marks of leprosy (Deut. 24:8)
The Kohen shall look at it, and behold! – the affliction has changed to white, the Kohen shall declare the affliction pure; it is pure.
Vayikra 13:17
On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair – his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and all his hair shall he shave off; he shall immerse his clothing and immerse his flesh in water, and become pure.
Vayikra 14:9
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:
2 If a man has a se’eith, a sappachath, or a bahereth on the skin of his flesh, and it forms a lesion of tzara’ath on the skin of his flesh, he shall be brought to Aaron the kohen, or to one of his sons, the kohanim.
3 The kohen shall look at the lesion on the skin of his flesh, and [if] hair in the lesion has turned white and the appearance of the lesion is deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a lesion of tzara’ath. When the kohen sees this, he shall pronounce him unclean.
4 But if it is a white bahereth on the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the kohen shall quarantine the [person with the] lesion for seven days.
5 And on the seventh day, the kohen shall see him. And, behold! the lesion has remained the same in its appearance; the lesion has not spread on the skin. So the kohen shall quarantine him for seven days a second time.
6 And the kohen shall see him on the seventh day a second time. And, behold! the lesion has become dimmer, and the lesion has not spread on the skin, the kohen shall pronounce him clean. It is a mispachath. He shall immerse his garments and become clean.
7 However, if the mispachath spreads on the skin after it has been shown to the kohen for its purification, it shall be shown to the kohen a second time.
8 The kohen shall look [at it]. And, behold! the mispachath has spread on the skin. The kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is tzara’ath.
9 If a man has a lesion of tzara’ath, he shall be brought to the kohen.
10 The kohen shall look [at it]. And, behold! there is a white se’eith on the skin, and either it has turned the hair white, or there is healthy, live flesh in the se’eith,
11 it is old tzara’ath on the skin of his flesh, and the kohen shall pronounce him unclean; he need not quarantine him because he is unclean.
12 And if the tzara’ath has spread over the skin, whereby the tzara’ath covers all the skin of the [person with the] lesion, from his head to his feet, wherever the eyes of the kohen can see it,
13 then the kohen shall look [at it]. And, behold! the tzara’ath has covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce [the person with] the lesion clean. He has turned completely white; he is clean.
14 But on the day that live flesh appears in it, he shall become unclean.
15 When the kohen sees the healthy, live flesh, he shall pronounce him unclean. The live flesh is unclean; it is tzara’ath.
16 But, if the healthy, live flesh once again turns white, he shall come to the kohen.
17 And the kohen shall look at it. And, behold! the lesion has turned white; the kohen shall pronounce the lesion clean. He is clean.
18 If [a person’s] flesh has an inflammation on its skin, and it heals,
19 and on the place of the inflammation there is a white se’eith, or a reddish white bahereth, it shall be shown to the kohen.
20 The kohen shall look [at it]. And, behold! its appearance is lower than the skin, and its hair has turned white; so the kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is a lesion of tzara’ath that has erupted on the inflammation.
21 But if the kohen looks at it, and behold! it does not contain white hair, nor does it appear to be lower than the skin, and it is dim, the kohen shall quarantine him for seven days.
22 And if it spreads on the skin, the kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is a lesion.
23 But if the bahereth remains in its place, not spreading, it is the scar tissue of the inflammation, and the kohen shall pronounce him clean.
24 If [a person’s] flesh has a fire burn on its skin, and on the healed area of the burn, there is a reddish white or white bahereth,
25 the kohen shall look at it. And, behold! the hair has turned white in the bahereth, and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is tzara’ath which has spread in the burn. So, the kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is a lesion of tzara’ath.
26 But, if the kohen looks at it, and, behold! there is no white hair in the bahereth, and it is not lower than the skin and it is dim, the kohen shall quarantine him for seven days.
27 And the kohen shall look at it on the seventh day. If it has spread on the skin, the kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is a lesion of tzara’ath.
28 But if the bahereth remains in its place, not increasing on the skin, and it is dim, it is a se’eith of the burn, and the kohen shall pronounce him clean, because it is the scar tissue of the burn.
29 If a man or a woman has a lesion on the head or on the beard [area],
30 the kohen shall look at the lesion, and, behold! its appearance is deeper than the skin, and in it is a thin golden yellow hair, the kohen shall pronounce him unclean. It is a nethek, which is tzara’ath of the head or the beard.
31 But when the kohen looks at the nethek lesion, and, behold! its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the kohen shall quarantine [the person with] the nethek lesion for seven days.
32 And the kohen shall look at the lesion on the seventh day. And, behold! the nethek has not spread, and no golden yellow hair was in it, and the appearance of the nethek is not deeper than the skin,
33 he shall shave himself, but adjacent to the nethek he shall not shave, and the kohen shall quarantine [the person with] the nethek again for seven days.
34 Then the kohen shall look at the nethek on the seventh day. And, behold! the nethek did not spread on the skin, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, the kohen shall pronounce him clean, and he shall immerse his garments and become clean.
35 But if the nethek spreads on the skin, after he has been declared clean,
36 the kohen shall look at it, and, behold! the nethek has spread on the skin, the kohen need not examine for golden yellow hair; it is unclean!
37 But if the appearance of the nethek has remained the same, or if black hair has grown in it, the nethek has healed; he is clean. So the kohen shall pronounce him clean.
38 If a man or a woman has spots on the skin of their flesh, white spots,
39 the kohen shall look, and, behold! there are dim white spots on the skin of their flesh, it is a bohak [pigmentation] which has spread on the skin. He is clean.
40 If a man loses the hair on [the back of] his head, he is bald. He is clean.
41 And if he loses his hair on the side toward his face, he is bald at the front. He is clean.
42 If there is a reddish white lesion on the back or front bald area, it is a spreading tzara’ath in his back or front bald area.
43 So the kohen shall look at it. And, behold! there is a reddish white se’eith lesion on his back or front bald area, like the appearance of tzara’ath on the skin of the flesh,
44 He is a man afflicted with tzara’ath; he is unclean. The kohen shall surely pronounce him unclean; his lesion is on his head.
45 And the person with tzara’ath, in whom there is the lesion, his garments shall be torn, his head shall be unshorn, he shall cover himself down to his mustache and call out, “Unclean! Unclean!”
46 All the days the lesion is upon him, he shall remain unclean. He is unclean; he shall dwell isolated; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.
47 [And as for] the garment that has the lesion of tzara’ath upon it, on a woolen garment, or on a linen garment,
48 or on [threads prepared for the] warp or the woof of linen or of wool, or on leather or on anything made from leather.
49 If the lesion on the garment, the leather, the warp or woof [threads] or on any leather article, is deep green or deep red, it is a lesion of tzara’ath, and it shall be shown to the kohen.
50 The kohen shall look at the lesion, and he shall quarantine [the article with] the lesion for seven days.
51 And he shall look at the lesion on the seventh day. [If] the lesion has spread on the garment, or on the warp or woof [threads], or on the leather or on any article made from leather, the lesion is a malignant tzara’ath; it is unclean.
52 And he shall burn the garment, the warp or woof [threads] of wool or of linen, or any leather article which has the lesion upon it, for it is a malignant tzara’ath ; it shall be burned in fire.
53 But if the kohen looks, and, behold! the lesion has not spread on the garment, the warp or woof [threads], or any leather article,
54 the kohen shall order, and they shall wash what the lesion is upon, and he shall quarantine it again for seven days.
55 Then the kohen shall look [at it] after the lesion has been washed. And, behold! the lesion has not changed in appearance, and the lesion has not spread; it is unclean. You shall burn it in fire. It is a penetrating lesion on the worn or new [article].
56 But if the kohen looks [at it] after it has been washed, and behold! the lesion has become dimmer, he shall tear it out of the garment, out of the leather, or out of the warp or woof [threads].
57 And if it appears again on the garment, the warp or woof [threads] or any leather article, it is a recurrent growth [of the lesion]. You shall burn it in fire [the article] upon which the lesion is [found].
58 But the garment, the warp or woof [threads] or any leather article which is washed, and the lesion disappears from them, shall be immersed a second time, and it shall be clean.
59 This is the law of a lesion of tzara’ath on a woolen or linen garment, warp or woof threads, or any leather article, to render it clean or unclean.
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the person afflicted with tzara’ath, on the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the kohen.
3 The kohen shall go outside the camp, and the kohen shall look, and behold, the lesion of tzara’ath has healed in the afflicted person.
4 Then the kohen shall order, and the person to be cleansed shall take two live, clean birds, a cedar stick, a strip of crimson [wool], and hyssop.
5 The kohen shall order, and one shall slaughter the one bird into an earthenware vessel, over spring water.
6 [As for] the live bird, he shall take it, and then the cedar stick, the strip of crimson [wool], and the hyssop, and, along with the live bird, he shall dip them into the blood of the slaughtered bird, over the spring water.
7 He shall then sprinkle seven times upon the person being cleansed from tzara’ath, and he shall cleanse him. He shall then send away the live bird into the [open] field.
8 The person being cleansed shall then immerse his garments, shave off all his hair, and immerse [himself] in water, and become clean. After this, he may enter the camp, but he shall remain outside his tent for seven days.
9 And it shall be, on the seventh day, that he shall shave off all his hair: [that of] his head, his beard, his eyebrows; indeed, all his hair, he shall shave off. He shall then immerse his garments and immerse his flesh in water, thus becoming clean.
10 And on the eighth day, he shall take two unblemished [male] lambs, one unblemished ewe lamb in its [first] year, three tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with [olive] oil as a meal offering, and one log of [olive] oil.
11 And the kohen who is performing the cleansing shall place the person being cleansed [together] with these [things], before the Lord, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.
12 And the kohen shall take one [male] lamb and bring it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them as a waving before the Lord.
13 He shall slaughter the lamb in the place where one slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a holy place. For regarding the kohen[‘s service], the guilt offering is like the sin offering. It is a holy of holies.
14 The kohen shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the kohen shall place it above the cartilage of the right ear of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
15 And the kohen shall take some of the log of oil, and pour [it] onto the kohen’s left palm.
16 The kohen shall then dip his right index finger into some of the oil that is on his left palm, and sprinkle some of the oil with his index finger seven times, before the Lord.
17 And some of the remainder of the oil that is in his palm, the kohen shall place on the cartilage of the right ear of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on [top of] the blood of the guilt offering.
18 And what is left over from the oil that is in the kohen’s palm, he shall place upon the head of the person being cleansed, and the kohen shall effect atonement for him before the Lord.
19 The kohen shall then perform [the service of] the sin offering and effect atonement for the person being cleansed of his uncleanness. After this, he shall slaughter the burnt offering.
20 And the kohen shall bring up the burnt offering and the meal offering to the altar. The kohen shall thus effect atonement for him, and he shall be [completely] clean.
21 But if he is poor and cannot afford [these sacrifices], he shall take one [male] lamb as a guilt offering for a waving to effect atonement for him, and one tenth [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil as a meal offering, and a log of oil.
22 And two turtle doves or two young doves, according to what he can afford; one shall be a sin offering, and one a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his cleansing, to the kohen, to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, before the Lord.
24 And the kohen shall take the guilt offering lamb and the log of oil, and the kohen shall wave them as a waving, before the Lord.
25 And he shall slaughter the guilt offering lamb, and the kohen shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering’s and place it on the cartilage of the right ear of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
26 And the kohen shall then pour some of the oil into the left palm of the kohen.
27 And the kohen shall sprinkle with his right index finger some of the oil that is in his left palm, seven times before the Lord.
28 And the kohen shall place some of the oil that is in his palm, on the cartilage of the right ear of the person being cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering.
29 And what is left over from the oil that is in the kohen’s palm, he shall place upon the head of the person being cleansed, to effect atonement for him, before the Lord.
30 He shall then perform [the service of] one of the turtle doves or of the young doves, from whatever he can afford,
31 [from] what he can afford, one as a sin offering, and one as a burnt offering, besides the meal offering, and the kohen shall effect atonement for the person being cleansed, before the Lord.
32 This is the law of one in whom there is a lesion of tzara’ath, who cannot afford [the full array of sacrifices], when he is to be cleansed.
33 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
34 When you come to the land of Canaan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I place a lesion of tzara’ath upon a house in the land of your possession,
35 and the one to whom the house belongs comes and tells the kohen, saying, “Something like a lesion has appeared to me in the house,”
36 the kohen shall order that they clear out the house, before the kohen comes to look at the lesion, so that everything in the house should not become unclean. After this, the kohen shall come to look at the house.
37 And he shall look at the lesion. Now, [if] the lesion in the walls of the house consists of dark green or dark red sunken looking stains, appearing as if deeper than the wall,
38 then the kohen shall go out of the house to the entrance of the house, and he shall quarantine the house for seven days.
39 Then the kohen shall return on the seventh day and look [at the house]. Now, [if] the lesion has spread in the walls of the house,
40 the kohen shall order that they remove the stones upon which the lesion is [found], and they shall cast them away outside the city, to an unclean place.
41 And he shall scrape out the house from the inside, all around, and they shall pour out the [mortar] dust from what they scraped, outside the city, into an unclean place.
42 And they shall take other stones and bring them instead of those stones. And he shall take other [mortar] dust, and plaster the house.
43 And if the lesion returns and erupts in the house, after he had removed the stones, and after the house had been scraped around and after it had been plastered,
44 then the kohen shall come and look [at it]. Now, [if] the lesion in the house has spread, it is malignant tzara’ath in the house; it is unclean.
45 He shall demolish the house, its stones, its wood, and all the [mortar] dust of the house, and he shall take [them] outside the city, to an unclean place.
46 And anyone entering the house during all the days of its quarantine shall become unclean until the evening.
47 And whoever lies down in the house, shall immerse his garments, and whoever eats in the house, shall immerse his garments.
48 But if the kohen comes and comes again and looks [at the lesion], and behold, the lesion did not spread in the house, after the house has been plastered, the kohen shall pronounce the house clean, because the lesion has healed.
49 To [ritually] cleanse the house, he shall take two birds, a cedar stick, a strip of crimson [wool], and hyssop.
50 He shall slaughter one bird into an earthenware vessel, over spring water.
51 And he shall take the cedar stick, the hyssop, the strip of crimson [wool], and the live bird, and he shall dip them into the blood of slaughtered bird and into the spring water and sprinkle towards the house seven times.
52 And he shall [thus] cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, the spring water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the strip of crimson [wool].
53 He shall then send away the live bird outside the city, onto the [open] field. He shall thus effect atonement for the house, and it will be clean.
54 [All] this is the law for every lesion of tzara’ath, and for a nethek,
55 And for tzara’ath of garments and houses,
56 And for a se’eith and for a sapachath and for a bahereth;
57 To render decisions regarding the day of uncleanness and the day of cleanness. This is the law of tzara’ath.
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