History of Jews and Israel: A Simple Timeline
Truly, there is no limit to mitzvot, as the psalmist says, I have seen that all things have their limit, but your commandment is broad beyond measure [ps. 119:96]. on the other hand, if we count only the general, the fundamental ones [ve-ha-iqarim] and the commandments that are binding for all time, the mitzvot do not add up to [’asuyot, lit. “are not made to be”] 613.
1. To know there is a God (Elohim)
(Exodus 20:2)
2. To have no other gods.
(Exodus 20:3)
3. To know that He is one.
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
4. To love Him.
(Deuteronomy 6:5)
5. To fear Him.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
6. To sanctify His Name.
(Leviticus 22:32)
7. Not to profane His Name.
(Leviticus 22:32)
8. To worship Him as He has ordered and not destroy holy objects.
(Deuteronomy 12:4)
9. To listen to the true prophet.
(Deuteronomy 18:15)
10. Not to test the prophet.
(Deuteronomy 6:16)
11. To emulate His ways.
(Deuteronomy 28:9)
12. To be with those who only worship Him.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
13. To love your neighbor as yourself.
(Leviticus 19:18)
14. To love converts.
(Deuteronomy 10:19)
15. Not to hate your brother in your heart.
(Leviticus 19:17)
16. To reprove your brother when necessary.
(Leviticus 19:17)
17. Not to embarrass others.
(Leviticus 19:17)
18. Not to oppress the weak.
(Exodus 22:21)
19. Not to slander.
(Leviticus 19:16)
20. Not to take revenge.
(Leviticus 19:18)
21. Not to bear a grudge.
(Leviticus 19:18)
22. Teach Torah to your children.
(Deuteronomy 6:7)
23. To respect and defer to the elders.
(Leviticus 19:32)
24. Do not turn to the ways of idol worship.
(Leviticus 19:4)
25. Let the fringes on your clothes remind you to have pure conduct.
(Numbers 15:39)
26. Not to blaspheme or curse a judge.
(Exodus 22:27)
27. Not to worship idols.
(Exodus 20:5)
28. Not to bow down to idols.
(Exodus 20:5)
29. Not to make an idol.
(Exodus 20:4)
30. Not to make or cast an image.
(Leviticus 19:4)
31. Not to make gods of silver or gold.
(Exodus 20:20)
32. Not to turn people to idolatry.
(Exodus 23:13)
33. To destroy a city that has turned to idol worship.
(Deuteronomy 13:17)
34. Not to rebuild that city.
(Deuteronomy 13:17)
35. Not to retain any benefit from that city.
(Deuteronomy 13:18)
36. Not to missionize a person to idol worship.
(Deuteronomy 13:12)
37. Not to love the missionary.
(Deuteronomy 13:9)
38. Not to stop hating him.
(Deuteronomy 13:9)
39. Not to save him.
(Deuteronomy 13:9)
40. Not to speak in his defense.
(Deuteronomy 13:9)
41. Not to refrain from incriminating him.
(Deuteronomy 13:9)
42. Not to prophesize in idolatry.
(Deuteronomy 18:20)
43. To ignore the false prophet.
(Deuteronomy 13:4)
44. Not to prophesize falsely in God’s name.
(Deuteronomy 18:20)
45. Not to fear killing a false prophet.
(Deuteronomy 18:22)
46. Never swear in the name of an idol.
(Exodus 23:13)
47. Not to perform as or acknowledge those who purport to channel spirits.
(Leviticus 19:31)
48. Not to perform as or consult fortunetellers.
(Leviticus 19:31)
49. Not to burn your children in a sacrificial fire to Molech.
(Leviticus 18:21)
50. Not to erect a stone pillar in a place of public worship.
(Deuteronomy 16:22)
51. Not to erect an idol or bow down on a smooth stone for worship.
(Leviticus 26:1)
52. Not to plant a tree as a sacred pole.
(Deuteronomy 16:21)
53. Destroy idols, their accessories, and the places where they were worshipped.
(Deuteronomy 12:2)
54. Do not derive benefit from idols or bring abominations home.
(Deuteronomy 7:26)
55. Do not derive benefit from the gold and silver accessories of idols.
(Deuteronomy 7:25)
56. Make no covenant with Canaanites or their gods.
(Deuteronomy 7:2)
57. Show them no favor.
(Deuteronomy 7:2)
58. Not to let them dwell in your land.
(Exodus 23:33)
59. Not to imitate their customs and clothing.
(Leviticus 20:23)
60. Not to be superstitious.
(Leviticus 19:26)
61. To not self-induce a trance to foresee events or tolerate soothsayers.
(Deuteronomy 18:10)
62. Not to engage in astrology.
(Leviticus 19:26)
63. Not to say incantations or cast spells.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
64. Not to attempt contacting the dead.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
65. Not to consult with mediums.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
66. Not to converse with wizards.
(Deuteronomy 18:11)
67. Not to do sorcery.
(Deuteronomy 18:10)
68. To not cut your hair at the temples.
(Leviticus 19:27)
69. Do not shave your beard.
(Leviticus 19:27)
70. Men must not wear women’s clothes.
(Deuteronomy 22:5)
71. Women must not wear men’s clothes.
(Deuteronomy 22:5)
72. Not to tattoo your skin.
(Leviticus 19:28)
73. Not to tear your skin for idolatry or mourning.
(Deuteronomy 14:1)
74. Not to shave your head in mourning.
(Deuteronomy 14:1)
75. Wrongdoers must correct their ways and confess before God.
(Numbers 5:7)
76. Recite the central prayers twice daily and always study Torah, wherever you are.
(Deuteronomy 6:7)
77. Serve God with prayer.
(Exodus 23:25)
78. The priests, who are the sons of Aaron, must bless the nation.
(Numbers 6:23)
79. To wear phylacteries so the laws will be a pendant on your forehead.
(Deuteronomy 6:8)
80. To bind phylacteries so that the laws will be a sign on the arm.
(Deuteronomy 6:8)
81. To put up a Mezuzah so that the laws will be on the doorposts of your house.
(Deuteronomy 6:9)
82. Each male must write a Torah scroll.
(Deuteronomy 31:19)
83. The king must write a second Torah scroll.
(Deuteronomy 17:18)
84. To have fringes on the corners of your garments.
(Numbers 15:38)
85. Bless God after meals.
(Deuteronomy 8:10)
86. To circumcise every male on the eighth day.
(Leviticus 12:3)
87. To rest on the seventh day.
(Exodus 23:12)
88. Not to do prohibited work on the seventh day.
(Exodus 20:10)
89. The court must not inflict punishment on the Sabbath.
(Exodus 35:3)
90. Stay near home and within city bounds on the Sabbath.
(Exodus 16:29)
91. To remember and sanctify the Sabbath by blessing the wine and lighting the conclusionary candle.
(Exodus 20:8)
92. To perform self-denial and to rest from exertion on Yom Kippur.
(Leviticus 23:32)
93. Not to do prohibited labor.
(Leviticus 23:31)
94. To afflict yourself.
(Leviticus 16:29)
95. Not to eat or drink.
(Leviticus 23:29)
96. To rest on the first day of Passover.
(Leviticus 23:8)
97. To do no work on the first day of Passover.
(Leviticus 23:8)
98. To rest on the seventh day of Passover.
(Leviticus 23:8)
99. To do no work on the seventh day of Passover.
(Leviticus 23:8)
100. To rest on the first day of Pentecost.
(Leviticus 23:21)
101. To do no work on the first day of Pentecost.
(Leviticus 23:21)
102. To rest on the New Year (the first day of the seventh month).
(Leviticus 23:24)
103. To do no work on Rosh Hashana, the New Year.
(Leviticus 23:25)
104. To rest on the first day of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths.
(Leviticus 23:35)
105. The first day of Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, is sacred. Do no work.
(Leviticus 23:35)
106. To rest on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths, Shimini Atzeret.
(Leviticus 23:36)
107. To do no work on the eighth day of the Feast of Booths.
(Leviticus 23:36)
108. Do not eat leaven past noon on the day of Passover.
(Deuteronomy 16:3)
109. To destroy all leaven on Passover.
(Exodus 12:15)
110. Not to eat leaven all seven days of Passover.
(Exodus 13:3)
111. Not to eat anything containing leaven during Passover.
(Exodus 12:20)
112. No leaven shall be found in your domain during Passover.
(Exodus 13:7)
113. Not to find any leaven in your house all seven days of Passover.
(Exodus 12:19)
114. To eat matzoh on the first night of Passover.
(Exodus 12:18)
115. On that night to explain the meaning of Passover.
(Exodus 13:8)
116. To hear the Shofar, the ram’s horn trumpet, on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month (Rosh Hashanah).
(Numbers 29:1)
117. To dwell in a Sukka (booth) for the seven days of the festival.
(Leviticus 23:42)
118. To take up a Lulav (palm branch) and an Etrog (citron).
(Leviticus 23:40)
119. Families shall pay an annual half-shekel temple tax.
(Exodus 30:13)
120. The courts must calculate the day on which the new month begins.
(Exodus 12:2)
121. To afflict and cry out (blow the trumpets) before God in times of catastrophe.
(Numbers 10:9)
122. A man should contractually marry a woman before living with her.
(Deuteronomy 24:1)
123. Not to have relations with women who are not acquired thus. (An Israelite man or woman cannot be a prostitute.)
(Deuteronomy 23:18)
124. Not to withhold food, clothing, and relations from your wife.
(Exodus 21:10)
125. To have children from her.
(Genesis 1:28)
126. A divorced wife must receive a written bill of divorce.
(Deuteronomy 24:1)
127. A man cannot remarry his divorced wife.
(Deuteronomy 24:4)
128. To marry a childless brother’s widow.
(Deuteronomy 25:5)
129. To free a childless widow from the obligation to marry her brother-in-law.
(Deuteronomy 25:9)
130. The widow must not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed.
(Deuteronomy 25:5)
131. The court must fine one who seduces a maiden.
(Exodus 22:15-16)
132. The rapist must marry the maiden.
(Deuteronomy 22:29)
133. He must not divorce her.
(Deuteronomy 22:29)
134. The slanderer must remain married to his wife.
(Deuteronomy 22:19)
135. He must not divorce her.
(Deuteronomy 22:19)
136. To take procedures against a suspected adultress.
(Numbers 5:30)
137. A jealous husband must take his wife to the priests and not put oil on her meal offering.
(Numbers 5:15)
138. A suspected wife is to be accompanied by a meal offering that contains no frankincense.
(Numbers 5:15)
139. Not to have relations with your mother.
(Leviticus 18:7)
140. Not to have relations with your father’s wife.
(Leviticus 18:8)
141. Not to have relations with your sister.
(Leviticus 18:9)
142. Not to have relations with your father’s wife’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:11)
143. Not to have relations with your son’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
144. Not to have relations with your daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
145. Not to have relations with your daughter’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:10)
146. Not to marry a woman and her daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
147. Not to marry a woman and her son’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
148. Not to marry a woman and her daughter’s daughter.
(Leviticus 18:17)
149. Not to have relations with your father’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:12)
150. Not to have relations with your mother’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:13)
151. Not to have relations with your father’s brother’s wife (same father).
(Leviticus 18:14)
152. Not to have relations with your son’s wife.
(Leviticus 18:15)
153. Not to have relations with your brother’s wife (same father and/or mother).
(Leviticus 18:16)
154. Not to have relations with your wife’s sister.
(Leviticus 18:18)
155. A man must not have relations with a beast.
(Leviticus 18:23)
156. A woman must not have relations with a beast.
(Leviticus 18:23)
157. Not to have homosexual relations.
(Leviticus 18:22)
158. Not to have homosexual relations with your father.
(Leviticus 18:7)
159. Not to have homosexual relations with your father’s brother.
(Leviticus 18:14)
160. Not to have relations with a married woman.
(Leviticus 18:20)
161. Not to have relations with a menstrually unclean woman.
(Leviticus 18:19)
162. Not to marry Gentiles.
(Deuteronomy 7:3)
163. Not to let Moabite and Ammonite males marry the Jewish people.
(Deuteronomy 23:4)
164. Don’t abhor or keep third-generation Edomite and Egyptian converts from marrying into the Jewish nation.
(Deuteronomy 23:8-9)
165. Not to abhor or refrain from marrying a third-generation Edomite or Egyptian convert.
(Deuteronomy 23:8-9)
166. A bastard child cannot become an Israelite.
(Deuteronomy 23:3)
167. A eunuch or sexually mutilated man may not enter into the community.
(Deuteronomy 23:2)
168. Not to castrate any male (including animals).
(Leviticus 22:24)
169. The High Priest must not marry a widow.
(Leviticus 21:14)
170. The High Priest must not have relations with a widow.
(Leviticus 21:14)
171. The High Priest must marry a virgin.
(Leviticus 21:13)
172. A priest must not marry a divorcée.
(Leviticus 21:7)
173. A priest may not marry a prostitute.
(Leviticus 21:7)
174. A priest must not marry a defiled woman.
(Leviticus 21:7)
175. Not to have pleasurable physical contact with any forbidden woman.
(Leviticus 18:6)
176. To examine animals that are permitted as food.
(Leviticus 11:2)
177. Be careful to eat only clean birds.
(Deuteronomy 14:11)
178. To distinguish which sea creatures are fit to eat.
(Leviticus 11:9)
179. To distinguish which winged insects may be eaten.
(Leviticus 11:21)
180. Not to eat unclean animals.
(Leviticus 11:4)
181. Not to eat forbidden birds.
(Leviticus 11:13)
182. Not to eat sea creatures without fins and scales.
(Leviticus 11:11)
183. Not to eat unclean flying insects.
(Deuteronomy 14:19)
184. Small swarming insects and unclean creatures that crawl on land are forbidden as food.
(Leviticus 11:41)
185. Not to eat maggots.
(Leviticus 11:44)
186. Not to eat snakes, scorpions, and worms found on the ground (after leaving the fruit).
(Leviticus 11:42)
187. Not to eat creatures that live in water, other than fish.
(Leviticus 11:43)
188. Not to eat an animal that died without ritual slaughter.
(Deuteronomy 14:21)
189. Not to eat an ox that was condemned to be stoned.
(Exodus 21:28)
190. Not to eat the meat of a mortally wounded animal.
(Exodus 22:30)
191. Not to eat a limb torn off from a living creature.
(Deuteronomy 12:23)
192. Not to eat blood.
(Leviticus 3:17)
193. Not to eat the fat of some clean animals.
(Leviticus 3:17)
194. Not to eat the thigh muscle.
(Genesis. 32:33)
195. Not to eat milk and meat cooked together.
(Exodus 23:19)
196. Not to cook milk and meat together.
(Exodus 34:26)
197. Not to eat bread from the new grain harvest.
(Leviticus 23:14)
198. Roasted grains must be offered before they are eaten.
(Leviticus 23:14)
199. Not to eat ripe grains from the new grain harvest before they are made as an offering.
(Leviticus 23:14)
200. Not to eat the fruit of a tree for the first three years.
(Leviticus 19:23)
201. At the risk of forfeiture, not to eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard.
(Deuteronomy 22:9)
202. No one may eat produce for an offering or untithed food.
(Leviticus 22:15)
203. Not to eat or drink anything offered as a sacrifice to an idol.
(Deuteronomy 32:38)
204. To ritually slaughter an animal before eating it.
(Deuteronomy 12:21)
205. Not to slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day.
(Leviticus 22:28)
206. The blood of a slaughtered wild animal must be covered with dirt.
(Leviticus 17:13)
207. Not to take a nesting bird with her eggs and young.
(Deuteronomy 22:6)
208. To release the mother bird if you did not take her.
(Deuteronomy 22:7)
209. Not to swear falsely in God’s Name.
(Leviticus 19:12)
210. Not to take God’s Name in vain.
(Exodus 20:7)
211. Do not lie or deal falsely, or deny that something of value was left in your possession.
(Leviticus 19:11)
212. To not swear falsely.
(Leviticus 19:11)
213. To swear in God’s Name only to confirm the truth, when deemed necessary by the courts.
(Deuteronomy 10:20)
214. To keep your promises and vows to God.
(Deuteronomy 23:24)
215. Not to break oaths or vows.
(Numbers 30:3)
216. To have vows and oaths annulled according to law.
(Numbers 30:3)
217. The Nazirite must let his hair grow.
(Numbers 6:5)
218. The Nazirite must not cut his hair.
(Numbers 6:5)
219. The Nazirite must not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar.
(Numbers 6:3)
220. The Nazirite must not eat fresh grapes.
(Numbers 6:3)
221. The Nazirite must not eat raisins or drink anything steeped in grapes.
(Numbers 6:3)
222. The Nazirite must not eat grape seeds.
(Numbers 6:4)
223. The Nazirite must not eat grape skins or grapes dried on the vine.
(Numbers 6:4)
224. A Nazirite may not enter where there is a dead person.
(Numbers 6:6)
225. A Nazirite must not come in contact with the dead.
(Numbers 6:7)
226. A Nazirite must shave his head after the completion of his vowed service.
(Numbers 6:18)
227. To estimate the value of persons for whom offerings are paid.
(Leviticus 27:2)
228. For priests to estimate the value of animal offerings.
(Leviticus 27:12-13)
229. For priests to estimate the value of consecrated houses.
(Leviticus 27:14)
230. To determine the redemption value of a vowed field.
(Leviticus 27:16)
231. Fulfill the procedures of vowed possessions.
(Leviticus 27:28)
232. Not to sell vowed possessions.
(Leviticus 27:28)
233. Not to redeem any vowed possessions.
(Leviticus 27:28)
234. Not to plant diverse seeds together.
(Leviticus 19:19)
235. Not to plant grains or greens in a vineyard.
(Deuteronomy 22:9)
236. Not to crossbreed animals.
(Leviticus 19:19)
237. Not to work with different animals together.
(Deuteronomy 22:10)
238. Not to wear cloth woven of both wool and linen.
(Deuteronomy 22:11)
239. No, to reap your harvest to the edge of the field, but leave a corner uncut for the poor.
(Leviticus 19:10)
240. Not to reap that corner but to leave fruit and grain for the poor.
(Leviticus 19:9)
241. To leave gleanings.
(Leviticus 19:9)
242. Not to gather the gleanings.
(Leviticus 19:9)
243. Not to pick your vineyard bare.
(Leviticus 19:10)
244. Not to gather the gleanings of a vineyard.
(Leviticus 19:10)
245. To not gather the fallen fruit of the vineyard.
(Leviticus 19:10)
246. Not to pick the unformed clusters of grapes.
(Leviticus 19:10)
247. To leave forgotten sheaves in the field or leave a sheaf for the poor.
(Deuteronomy 24:19)
248. Not to retrieve them but leave them for the widow, alien, and orphan.
(Deuteronomy 24:19)
249. To separate the tithe for the poor.
(Deuteronomy 14:28)
250. To give charity.
(Deuteronomy 15:11)
251. Not to withhold charity from those in need.
(Deuteronomy 15:7)
252. To set aside a tithed portion of the offerings for the priesthood).
(Deuteronomy 18:4)
253. The Levite must be tithed on his tithe.
(Numbers 18:26)
254. To not delay your agricultural offerings.
(Exodus 22:28)
255. A layperson may not eat from a sacred donation.
(Leviticus 22:10)
256. A servant of a priest may not eat from a sacred donation.
(Leviticus 22:10)
257. An uncircumcised priest may not eat from a sacred donation.
(Exodus 12:48)
258. A priest in a state of impurity may not eat from a sacred donation.
(Leviticus 22:4)
259. A priest’s daughter married to a layman may not eat from a sacred donation.
(Leviticus 22:12)
260. Levites are to receive earmarked tithes each planting year.
(Numbers 18:24)
261. To set aside the Second Tithe.
(Deuteronomy 14:22)
262. Not to spend its redemption value on anything other than food, drink, or ointment.
(Deuteronomy 26:14)
263. Not to eat from the Tithe while unclean.
(Deuteronomy 26:14)
264. A mourner must not eat the Second Tithe on the first day of mourning.
(Deuteronomy 26:14)
265. Not to eat grains from the Second Tithe outside Jerusalem.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
266. Not to consume Second-Tithe wine products outside Jerusalem.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
267. Not to consume Second-Tithe oil outside Jerusalem.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
268. The fourth-year crops must be totally for holy purposes.
(Leviticus 19:24)
269. To read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year.
(Deuteronomy 26:13)
270. To bring the first fruits into the temple.
(Exodus 23:19)
271. The priests must not eat the first fruits outside Jerusalem.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
272. To read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation.
(Deuteronomy 26:5)
273. When baking, set aside some dough for the priesthood.
(Numbers 15:20)
274. To give the shoulder, two cheeks, and the stomach of a sacrificed animal to the priesthood.
(Deuteronomy 18:3)
275. To give the first shearing of sheep to the priesthood.
(Deuteronomy 18:4)
276. A father must redeem the firstborn son and give the money to the priesthood.
(Numbers 18:15)
277. To redeem each firstborn donkey with a lamb given to the priesthood.
(Exodus 13:13)
278. To break the neck of the firstborn donkey if the owner doesn’t redeem it.
(Exodus 13:13)
279. To rest the land during the seventh year and do no work, to allow for the rejuvenation of the earth.
(Exodus 34:21)
280. Not to work the land during the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:4)
281. Not to work with trees (to produce fruit) during the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:4)
282. Not to harvest wild crops in the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:5)
283. Not to systematically pick fruit in the seventh year.
(Leviticus 25:5)
284. To leave untouched all produce that grew in the seventh year.
(Exodus 23:11)
285. To relax all loans in the seventh year.
(Deuteronomy 15:3)
286. Not to pressure the debtor in the seventh year.
(Deuteronomy 15:2)
287. Not to refrain from lending in the year of remission for fear of monetary loss.
(Deuteronomy 15:9)
288. The court must count and determine the year of the Jubilee.
(Leviticus 25:8)
289. The court must sanctify the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:10)
290. To sound the ram’s horn on Yom Kippur of the Jubilee year, to free the slaves.
(Leviticus 25:9)
291. Not to work the land during the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:11)
292. Not to reap or harvest in the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:11)
293. Not to pick grapes in the usual way and to eat only directly from the vine in the fiftieth year.
(Leviticus 25:11)
294. Follow the laws of sold and family properties.
(Leviticus 25:24)
295. Not to sell land (in Israel) in perpetuity.
(Leviticus 25:23)
296. To follow the laws pertaining to houses in walled cities.
(Leviticus 25:29)
297. The Levites have no inheritance or allotment but will live in cities.
(Deuteronomy 18:2)
298. Levites will not partake in the spoils of war.
(Deuteronomy 18:1)
299. Levites are to be given cities and the surrounding fields.
(Numbers 35:2)
300. Not to sell the fields of the Levites, which will remain their possession before and after the Jubilee year.
(Leviticus 25:34)
301. To build a Sanctuary.
(Exodus 25:8)
302. Not to build the altar with stones hewn by metal.
(Exodus 20:22)
303. Not to climb steps to the altar.
(Exodus 20:23)
304. To show reverence for the temple.
(Leviticus 19:30)
305. Levites shall guard the temple area.
(Numbers 18:3)
306. Not to leave the temple unguarded.
(Numbers 18:5)
307. To blend the anointing oil.
(Exodus 30:31)
308. Not to duplicate the formula for the anointing oil.
(Exodus 30:32)
309. Not to anoint anyone who isn’t a priest or a king with it.
(Exodus 30:32)
310. Not to replicate the incense formula.
(Exodus 30:37)
311. Not to burn anything on the altar besides incense.
(Exodus 30:9)
312. The Levites carry the ark on their shoulders.
(Numbers 7:9)
313. Not to remove the poles from the ark.
(Exodus 25:15)
314. The Levites must work in the temple.
(Numbers 18:23)
315. There are specified duties for the Levites.
(Numbers 18:3)
316. The priest will be dedicated and must be treated as sacred.
(Leviticus 21:8)
317. The priestly work shifts must be equal during holidays.
(Deuteronomy 18:6-8)
318. The priests must wear their priestly garments during the service.
(Exodus 28:2)
319. The priestly garments must not be torn.
(Exodus 28:32)
320. The breastplate must not be loosened from the ephod.
(Exodus 28:28)
321. A priest must not enter the temple when drunk.
(Leviticus 10:9)
322. A priest must not enter the temple with unkempt hair.
(Leviticus 10:6)
323. A priest must not enter the temple with torn clothes.
(Leviticus 10:6)
324. A priest must not enter the sanctuary for no reason.
(Leviticus 16:2)
325. A priest must not leave the temple during the service.
(Leviticus 10:7)
326. To send the impure from the temple.
(Numbers 5:2)
327. Impure persons must not enter the temple.
(Numbers 5:3)
328. Unclean persons must not enter the Temple Mount area.
(Deuteronomy 23:11)
329. Unclean priests cannot do temple service.
(Leviticus 22:2)
330. An impure priest, after immersion, must not return to service until after sundown.
(Leviticus 21:6)
331. A priest must wash his hands and feet before ministering.
(Exodus 30:19)
332. A blemished priest must not enter the temple.
(Leviticus 21:23)
333. A blemished priest must not serve.
(Leviticus 21:17)
334. A temporarily blemished priest must not serve.
(Leviticus 21:18)
335. A non-priest must not serve.
(Numbers 18:4)
336. Blemished animals are unacceptable as offerings.
(Leviticus 22:21)
337. Not to dedicate a blemished animal for the altar.
(Leviticus 22:20)
338. An animal with a discharge must not be slaughtered.
(Leviticus 22:22)
339. Not to sprinkle the blood of a disabled animal.
(Leviticus 22:24)
340. Not to burn the fat of a defective animal.
(Leviticus 22:22)
341. Not to offer an animal with a temporary blemish.
(Deuteronomy 17:1)
342. Not to accept defective offerings even from foreigners.
(Leviticus 22:25)
343. Not to inflict wounds or commit damage upon dedicated animals.
(Leviticus 22:21)
344. To redeem disqualified dedicated animals.
(Deuteronomy 12:15)
345. To offer animals that are at least eight days old.
(Leviticus 22:27)
346. Not to offer animals purchased with the fees of a harlot or an animal exchanged for a dog.
(Deuteronomy 23:19)
347. Not to burn yeast or honey on the altar.
(Leviticus 2:11)
348. To salt all sacrifices.
(Leviticus 2:13)
349. Not to omit the salt from grain offerings.
(Leviticus 2:13)
350. To follow the burnt offering procedures as written in the Torah.
(Leviticus 1:3)
351. Not to eat the meat of a burnt offering.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
352. To carry out the procedure for a sin offering.
(Leviticus 6:18)
353. Not to eat the meat of a sin offering.
(Leviticus 6:23)
354. The priest shall not cut off the head of a bird (sin) offering.
(Leviticus 5:8)
355. To follow the procedures of the guilt offering.
(Leviticus 7:1)
356. The priests must eat the sacrificed meat in the temple.
(Exodus 29:33)
357. Priests must not eat the meat outside the temple.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
358. A non-priest must not eat the sacrificial meat.
(Exodus 29:33)
359. To follow the procedure of the peace offering.
(Leviticus 7:11)
360. Not to eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
361. To bring meal offerings in the prescribed manner.
(Leviticus 2:1)
362. Not to put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers.
(Leviticus 5:11)
363. Not to put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers.
(Leviticus 5:11)
364. Not to eat the cereal offering of the high priest.
(Leviticus 6:16)
365. Not to bake meal offerings with leaven.
(Leviticus 6:10)
366. The priests must eat the remains of the meal offerings.
(Leviticus 6:9)
367. To bring all freewill offerings to the temple and rejoice.
(Deuteronomy 12:5-6)
368. Not to withhold payment which fulfills a vow to God.
(Deuteronomy 23:22)
369. To offer all sacrifices in the temple.
(Deuteronomy 12:11)
370. To bring all votive offerings to the temple.
(Deuteronomy 12:26)
371. Not to slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple.
(Leviticus 17:4)
372. Not to offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard of the temple.
(Deuteronomy 12:13)
373. To offer two lambs every day.
(Numbers 28:3)
374. To light a fire on the altar every day.
(Leviticus 6:5)
375. Not to extinguish this fire.
(Leviticus 6:5)
376. To remove the ashes from the altar every day.
(Leviticus 6:3)
377. To burn incense every day.
(Exodus 30:7)
378. To keep the light burning every day (in the candelabra).
(Exodus 27:21)
379. The High Priest must bring a meal offering every day.
(Leviticus 6:13)
380. To bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on the Sabbath.
(Numbers 28:9)
381. To make and present the showbread.
(Exodus 25:30)
382. To bring additional offerings of the new moon.
(Numbers 28:11)
383. To bring additional offerings on Passover.
(Numbers 28:19)
384. To bring a wave offering from the meal of the new wheat.
(Leviticus 23:10)
385. To count the seven weeks from the new wheat offering to Pentecost (Shavuot).
(Leviticus 23:15)
386. To bring an additional offering on Shavuot (Pentecost).
(Numbers 28:26)
387. To offer two loaves, which must accompany the above sacrifices.
(Leviticus 23:18)
388. To bring additional offerings on Rosh Hashana, the New Year.
(Numbers 29:2)
389. To bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
(Numbers 29:8)
390. To bring additional offerings on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths.
(Numbers 29:13)
391. To bring additional offerings on Shmini Atzeret, the eighth day of the Feast of Booths.
(Numbers 29:35)
392. Not to eat any unfit sacrifices.
(Deuteronomy 14:3)
393. Not to eat sacrifices offered with improper intentions.
(Leviticus 7:18)
394. To eat the Thanksgiving sacrifice on the day it was sacrificed.
(Leviticus 22:30)
395. Not to eat leftover sacrifices.
(Leviticus 19:8)
396. Not to eat from sacrifices that have become impure.
(Leviticus 7:19)
397. An unclean person cannot eat from sacrifices.
(Leviticus 7:20)
398. Sacrificial remains must be burned on the third day.
(Leviticus 7:17)
399. Impure sacrifices must be burnt.
(Leviticus 7:19)
400. To follow the priestly rituals of Yom Kippur.
(Leviticus 16:3)
401. One who uses the sacred property for personal use incurs a special penalty and sacrifice.
(Leviticus 5:16)
402. Not to work with consecrated animals.
(Deuteronomy 15:19)
403. Not to shear the fleece of consecrated animals.
(Deuteronomy 15:19)
404. To slaughter the Paschal sacrifice at the specified time.
(Exodus 12:6)
405. Not to slaughter the Paschal sacrifice while possessing leaven.
(Exodus 23:18)
406. Not to leave the fat overnight.
(Exodus 23:18)
407. To slaughter the second Paschal Lamb.
(Numbers 9:11)
408. The Paschal Lamb is to be eaten with matzoh on the night it was slaughtered.
(Exodus 12:8)
409. To eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the fifteenth of Iyar.
(Numbers 9:11)
410. To roast the Paschal Lamb and not eat it raw or boiled.
(Exodus 12:9)
411. No part of the Paschal Lamb may be removed from the house.
(Exodus 12:46)
412. An apostate must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:43)
413. A hired servant or traveler must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:45)
414. An uncircumcised male must not eat from the Paschal Lamb.
(Exodus 12:48)
415. No bone of the Paschal Lamb shall be broken.
(Exodus 12:46)
416. Not to break any bones from the second Paschal offering.
(Numbers 9:12)
417. Not to leave any of the Lamb over until morning.
(Exodus 12:10)
418. Not to leave the second Paschal meat until morning.
(Numbers 9:12)
419. Eat the Passover meat entirely on the night it is offered.
(Deuteronomy 16:4)
420. To be seen at the temple three times a year—Passover, Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks; and Sukkot, the Festival of Booths.
(Deuteronomy 16:16)
421. To celebrate and bring a peace offering in pilgrimage on these three festivals.
(Exodus 23:14)
422. To rejoice in these three festivals.
(Deuteronomy 16:14)
423. Not to appear at the temple for annual festivals without offerings.
(Deuteronomy 16:16)
424. Not to refrain from rejoicing with and giving gifts to the Levites.
(Deuteronomy 12:19)
425. Every seven years, on Sukkot, the Feast of Booths, assemble all the people and read the law.
(Deuteronomy 31:12)
426. To consecrate to God the firstborn of man and beast.
(Exodus 13:12)
427. The priests must not eat of the unblemished firstborn animals outside Jerusalem.
(Deuteronomy 12:17)
428. The firstborn of clean animals cannot be redeemed.
(Numbers 18:17)
429. Separate the tithe from the animals.
(Leviticus 27:32)
430. Do not exchange a good animal for a bad one for the tithe.
(Leviticus 27:33)
431. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression.
(Leviticus 4:27)
432. An unintentional sin requires a sin offering when discovered.
(Leviticus 5:17-18)
433. A guilt offering is required when one deals deceitfully.
(Leviticus 5:25)
434. For certain sins a wealthy person will offer an animal and the poor will offer doves, pigeons, or meals as prescribed.
(Leviticus 5:7-11)
435. The court must bring an offering when it rules in error or when the community sins.
(Leviticus 4:13)
436. A woman with an irregular discharge must bring an offering after she goes to the ritual bath.
(Leviticus 15:28-29)
437. A woman who gives birth must bring an offering after she immerses in the ritual bath.
(Leviticus 12:6)
438. A man who is cured of a chronic discharge must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath.
(Leviticus 15:13-14)
439. One who is cured of skin disease must bring an offering after immersing in the ritual bath.
(Leviticus 14:10)
440. Not to substitute another beast for one scheduled for sacrifice.
(Leviticus 27:10)
441. The new animal, along with the substituted one, retains consecration.
(Leviticus 27:10)
442. Not to change consecrated animals (from one type of offering to another).
(Leviticus 27:26)
443. Everyone under a roof with a corpse is unclean.
(Numbers 19:14)
444. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer.
(Numbers 19:9)
445. A clean person sprinkles water on those who are unclean.
(Numbers 19:21)
446. The priest’s role is governed by the law when dealing with matters of skin disease.
(Leviticus 13:12)
447. The afflicted must not remove the signs of impurity.
(Deuteronomy 24:8)
448. The afflicted must not shave signs of impurity in his hair.
(Leviticus 13:33)
449. A skin-diseased person will tear his clothes, grow his hair long, and cry out, “unclean, unclean.”
(Leviticus 13:45)
450. Carry out the procedure for purifying the person with skin disease.
(Leviticus 14:2)
451. The diseased person must shave off all his hair prior to purification.
(Leviticus 14:9)
452. To discover when a leprous infection is on a garment.
(Leviticus 13:47)
453. To discover when a house is infected by a skin disease.
(Leviticus 14:35)
454. To observe the laws of menstrual impurity.
(Leviticus 15:19)
455. To observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth.
(Leviticus 12:2)
456. To observe the laws of impurity caused by an irregular discharge.
(Leviticus 15:25)
457. To observe the laws of impurity caused by a man’s chronic discharge.
(Leviticus 15:3)
458. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with a dead animal.
(Leviticus 11:39)
459. To observe the laws of impurity caused by contact with the eight (named) swarming creatures.
(Leviticus 11:29)
460. Observe the laws of impurity of seminal emission.
(Leviticus 15:16)
461. Observe the laws of impurity concerning liquid and solid foods.
(Leviticus 11:34)
462. Every impure person must immerse himself in a ritual bath to become pure.
(Leviticus 15:16)
463. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring ox.
(Exodus 21:28)
464. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating in another’s field.
(Exodus 22:4)
465. The court must judge the damages incurred by an open pit.
(Exodus 21:33)
466. The court must judge the damages incurred by the fire.
(Exodus 22:5)
467. Not to steal money stealthily.
(Leviticus 19:11)
468. The court must implement punitive measures against the thief.
(Exodus 21:37)
469. Each individual must ensure that his scales and weights are accurate.
(Leviticus 19:36)
470. Not to commit injustice with scales and weights.
(Leviticus 19:35)
471. Not to possess inaccurate weights and scales even if they are not for use.
(Deuteronomy 25:13)
472. Not to move a boundary marker to steal someone’s property.
(Deuteronomy 19:14)
473. Not to kidnap.
(Exodus 20:13)
474. Not to rob openly.
(Leviticus 19:13)
475. Not to withhold wages or fail to repay a debt.
(Leviticus 19:13)
476. Not to covet and scheme to acquire another’s possession.
(Exodus 20:14)
477. Not to desire another’s possession.
(Deuteronomy 5:18)
478. Return the robbed object or its value.
(Leviticus 5:23)
479. Not to ignore a lost object.
(Deuteronomy 22:3)
480. Return the lost object.
(Deuteronomy 22:1)
481. The court must implement laws against one who assaults another or damages another’s property.
(Exodus 21:18)
482. Not to murder.
(Exodus 20:13)
483. Not to accept money to save a convicted murderer.
(Numbers 35:31)
484. The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge.
(Numbers 35:25)
485. Not to accept monetary restitution instead of sending the accidental murderer to, or releasing him from, a city of refuge.
(Numbers 35:32)
486. Not to kill the murderer before he stands trial.
(Numbers 35:12)
487. To save someone being pursued even by taking the life of the pursuer.
(Deuteronomy 25:12)
488. Not to pity the pursuer.
(Numbers 35:12)
489. Not to stand idly by if someone’s life is in danger.
(Leviticus 19:16)
490. Designate refuge cities and prepare routes of access.
(Deuteronomy 19:3)
491. When a murdered person is found in open country and the murder is unsolved, break the neck of a calf by the river valley.
(Deuteronomy 21:4)
492. Not to work that river valley or plant there.
(Deuteronomy 21:4)
493. Not to allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property.
(Deuteronomy 22:8)
494. Make a guardrail around flat roofs.
(Deuteronomy 22:8)
495. Not to put a stumbling block before the blind.
(Leviticus 19:14)
496. Help another remove the load from a beast that can no longer carry it.
(Exodus 23:5)
497. Help others load their beasts.
(Deuteronomy 22:4)
498. Not to leave fallen beasts distraught with their burdens but help to load or unload.
(Deuteronomy 22:4)
499. Buy and sell according to Torah law.
(Leviticus 25:14)
500. Not to overcharge or underpay for an article.
(Leviticus 25:14)
501. Not to insult or harm anybody with words.
(Leviticus 25:17)
502. Not to cheat a sincere convert monetarily.
(Exodus 22:20)
503. Not to insult or harm a sincere convert with words.
(Exodus 22:20)
504. A Hebrew slave shall be released after six years.
(Exodus 21:2)
505. Not to sell him as a slave is sold.
(Leviticus 25:42)
506. Not to work the slave oppressively.
(Leviticus 25:43)
507. Not to allow a foreigner to work the slave oppressively.
(Leviticus 25:53)
508. Not to have the kinsman slave do menial slave labor.
(Leviticus 25:39)
509. Give the slave gifts when he goes free.
(Deuteronomy 15:14)
510. Not to send the freed slave away empty-handed.
(Deuteronomy 15:13)
511. Redeem Jewish maidservants.
(Exodus 21:8)
512. Betroth the Jewish maidservant.
(Exodus 21:8)
513. The master cannot resell a female servant.
(Exodus 21:8)
514. Canaanite slaves must work forever unless injured in one of their limbs.
(Leviticus 25:46)
515. Not to extradite a slave who fled to (Biblical) Israel.
(Deuteronomy 23:16)
516. Not to wrong a slave who has come to Israel for refuge.
(Deuteronomy 23:17)
517. The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard.
(Exodus 22:9)
518. Pay wages on the day they were earned.
(Deuteronomy 24:15)
519. Do not delay payment of wages past the agreed time.
(Leviticus 19:13)
520. The hired worker may eat from the unharvested crops where he works.
(Deuteronomy 23:25)
521. The worker must not eat while on hired time.
(Deuteronomy 23:26)
522. The worker must not take more than he can eat.
(Deuteronomy 23:25)
523. Not to muzzle an ox while plowing.
(Deuteronomy 25:4)
524. The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower.
(Exodus 22:13)
525. The courts must carry out the laws of the unpaid guard.
(Exodus 22:6)
526. Lend without interest to the poor.
(Exodus 22:24)
527. Not to press the poor for repayment.
(Exodus 22:24)
528. Press the idolater for payment.
(Deuteronomy 15:3)
529. The creditor must not forcibly take the collateral.
(Deuteronomy 24:10)
530. Return the collateral to the debtor when it is needed.
(Deuteronomy 24:13)
531. Not to delay returning the collateral when it is needed.
(Deuteronomy 24:12)
532. Not to demand collateral from a widow.
(Deuteronomy 24:17)
533. Not to demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food.
(Deuteronomy 24:6)
534. Not to lend with interest within the community.
(Leviticus 25:37)
535. Not to borrow with interest.
(Deuteronomy 23:20)
536. Not to play any role in an interest loan.
(Exodus 22:24)
537. Lend to, and borrow from, idolaters at interest.
(Deuteronomy 23:21)
538. The court must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitted or denier.
(Exodus 22:8)
539. Carry out the laws of the order of inheritance.
(Numbers 27:8)
540. Appoint judges.
(Deuteronomy 16:18)
541. Not to appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure.
(Deuteronomy 1:17)
542. Decide by majority in case of disagreement.
(Exodus 23:2)
543. The court must not execute through a majority of one, but at least a majority of two is required.
(Exodus 23:2)
544. A judge who presents a case for acquittal must not present an argument for conviction in capital cases.
(Exodus 23:2)
545. The court must carry out the death penalty of stoning.
(Deuteronomy 22:24)
546. The court must carry out the death penalty of burning.
(Leviticus 20:14)
547. The court must carry out the death penalty of the sword.
(Exodus 21:20)
548. The court must carry out the death penalty of strangulation.
(Leviticus 20:10)
549. The court must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry.
(Deuteronomy 21:22)
550. Bury the executed on the day they were killed.
(Deuteronomy 21:23)
551. Not to delay the burial overnight.
(Deuteronomy 21:23)
552. The court must not let the sorcerer live.
(Exodus 22:17)
553. The court must flog the wrongdoer.
(Deuteronomy 25:2)
554. The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes.
(Deuteronomy 25:3)
555. The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence.
(Exodus 23:7)
556. The court must not punish anybody who was forced to commit a crime.
(Deuteronomy 22:26)
557. The judge must not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial.
(Deuteronomy 19:13)
558. The judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial.
(Leviticus 19:15)
559. The judge must not respect the great man at the trial.
(Leviticus 19:15)
560. The judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor.
(Exodus 23:6)
561. The judge must not pervert justice.
(Leviticus 19:15)
562. The judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or an orphan.
(Deuteronomy 24:17)
563. Judge righteously.
(Leviticus 19:15)
564. The judge must not fear a violent man in judgment.
(Deuteronomy 1:17)
565. Judges must not accept bribes.
(Exodus 23:8)
566. Judges must not accept testimony unless both parties are present.
(Exodus 23:1)
567. Not to curse judges.
(Exodus 22:27)
568. Not to curse the head of state.
(Exodus 22:27)
569. Not to curse a deaf person.
(Leviticus 19:14)
570. Anyone who knows evidence must testify at a trial.
(Leviticus 5:1)
571. Carefully interrogate the witness.
(Deuteronomy 13:15)
572. A witness must not serve as a judge in capital crimes.
(Numbers 35:30)
573. Not to accept testimony from a lone witness.
(Deuteronomy 19:15)
574. Transgressors must not testify.
(Exodus 23:1)
575. The litigant’s relatives cannot testify.
(Deuteronomy 24:16)
576. Not to testify falsely.
(Exodus 20:13)
577. Do to the false witness what he tried to do to the defendant.
(Deuteronomy 19:19)
578. Act according to the rulings of the high court.
(Deuteronomy 17:11)
579. Not to deviate from a legal discussion.
(Deuteronomy 17:11)
580. Not to add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations.
(Deuteronomy 13:1)
581. Not to diminish any commandments from the Torah, in whole or in part.
(Deuteronomy 13:1)
582. Not to curse your father and mother.
(Exodus 21:17)
583. Not to strike your father and mother.
(Exodus 21:15)
584. Respect your father and mother.
(Exodus 20:12)
585. Fear your father and mother.
(Leviticus 19:3)
586. Not to behave like the rebellious son as described in the Torah.
(Deuteronomy 21:20)
587. Mourn for relatives—even priests.
(Leviticus 10:19)
588. The High Priest must not defile himself for any relatives.
(Leviticus 21:11)
589. The High Priest must not enter under the same roof as a corpse.
(Leviticus 21:11)
590. A priest must not defile himself for anyone other than his relatives.
(Leviticus 21:1)
591. Appoint a king from Israel.
(Deuteronomy 17:15)
592. Not to appoint a convert.
(Deuteronomy 17:15)
593. The king must not have too many wives.
(Deuteronomy 17:17)
594. The king must not have too many horses.
(Deuteronomy 17:16)
595. The king must not have too much silver and gold.
(Deuteronomy 17:17)
596. Destroy the seven Canaanite nations.
(Deuteronomy 20:17)
597. Not to let any of them remain alive.
(Deuteronomy 20:16)
598. Blot out the memory of Amalek.
(Deuteronomy 25:19)
599. Remember what Amalek did to the Jewish people.
(Deuteronomy 25:17)
600. Not to forget their atrocities and ambush on our journey from Egypt in the desert.
(Deuteronomy 25:19)
601. Not to dwell permanently in Egypt.
(Deuteronomy 17:16)
602. Offer peace terms to the residents of a city under siege and treat them according to the Torah if they accept surrender terms.
(Deuteronomy 20:10)
603. Not to offer peace to Ammon and Moab while besieging them.
(Deuteronomy 23:7)
604. Not to destroy fruit trees even during a siege.
(Deuteronomy 20:19)
605. Prepare latrines outside the camps.
(Deuteronomy 23:13)
606. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with.
(Deuteronomy 23:14)
607. Appoint a priest to speak to the soldiers during war.
(Deuteronomy 20:2)
608. A newly married man who has built a home or planted a vineyard is exempt from the military to rejoice with his wife.
(Deuteronomy 24:5)
609. Not to conscript or involve the newly married man in military or communal service.
(Deuteronomy 24:5)
610. Not to panic and retreat during battle.
(Deuteronomy 20:3)
611. Carry out the laws of captive women.
(Deuteronomy 21:11)
612. Not to sell her into slavery.
(Deuteronomy 21:14)
613. Not to retain her for servitude after having relations with her.
(Deuteronomy 21:14)
