Mitzvot (Commandments)

The Talmud (Tractate Makkot 23b) tells us that there are 613 commandments in the Torah; 248 Positive Commandments (do's) and 365 Negative Commandments (do not's). However, in the strictest sense, this is an over-statement of the true number, because many of the latter are in fact "negative equivalents" of the former, in that the positive tells us to do something and then its negative equivalent tells us not to do the opposite. Thus, for example, there is a law which tells us "To keep watch over this house [the Temple] continuously" (Numbers 18:2), while elsewhere there is a law which instructs us "Not to interrupt the watch held around the Temple" (Leviticus 18:30). Really this is the same Law, expressed in two different modes.


How do observant Jews know that these are the "correct" laws? In a significant number of cases, they know because it is stated explicitly. Exodus 27:21, for example, states that "You shall make the altar out of acacia-wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be four-square; and the height thereof shall be three cubits." Other than needing a precise understanding of the length of a cubit, the instruction could not be clearer.

But this is not true in every case. Exodus 23:19, for example, states that "You shall not seethe a kid in its mother's milk", which appears to be just as precise, but in fact leaves open fundamental questions from which the traditions of Kashrut have developed. Does the instruction only refer to seething, which is to say boiling? Can the kid be baked in its mother's milk, or poached, or the mother’s milk used in the mashed potato that is going to accompany the roasted kid, or drunk in the coffee taken with dessert? And does the instruction only apply to a kid and its own mother? Can the kid be seethed in a different mother's milk? Can a goat-kid be seethed in cow's milk, or vice versa? What appears to be a clear instruction transpires not to be clear at all. The Law attributed to the god transpires to require interpretation and deduction by the human mind.

That process of interpretation and deduction is known as Hermeneutics, and was defined by Rabbi Ishmael in the first century CE (a full explanation of his 13 Principles can be found in my book "A Myrtle Among Reeds"); his methodology was accepted at the outset of the Talmud, and remains in place for observant Jews today. It is through Rabbi Ishmael's methodology that the 613 mitzvot or commandments were deduced, though there are multiple versions of the 613, and at no point does either the Torah or the Talmud provide a definitive list. Many Jewish scholars have compiled their own "complete list", but all of them are in some measure different, and none of them are finally able to meet the sacred total of 613, though all find expediencies and pragmatisms to make their list appear to fit. Sometimes they disagree on which text to use to affirm a clearly given law, which is an unimportant difference between them; what matters is the clarity of the law, not the reference number in the footnote. But sometimes they disagree on the exact meaning of a clearly given law - לֹא תִרְצָח in Exodus 20:13, for example, is normally and famously translated as "Thou shalt not kill"; but in fact the verb tirtsach only means kill in the sense of murder, and not, say, in the sense of slaughtering meat for food, or self-defense, or war. At other times they disagree about a deduction, and generally these are the places at which the various denominations of Judaism separate.

                                    

Below is a generally accepted list of the 613 Mitzvot or Commandments, which are the Jewish Constitution. These do not include the seven No'achide commandments.


The Ten Commandments:

1. Worship no other god but YHVH.

2. Do not make or bow down to idols.

3. Do not use the name of YHVH for evil purposes.

4. The number 7 is sacred to YHVH.

5. Respect for parents.

6. Do not commit murder.

7. Do not commit adultery.

8. Do not steal.

9. Do not make false accusations.

10. Do not covet what belongs to someone else.


Originally there were probably only 7 commandments, a logical enough figure given the nature of the Hebrew deity, who was Saturn the God of Peace, the 7th and final deity, and also 7 to balance the No'achide 7. But which were the 7? We cannot know.


The Ten Commandments are not separate from the 613 commandments; neither are they the first ten. In some cases (such as the honouring of parents), the statement in the Ten combines several in the 613.

The 613 commandments, of which 248 are positive, 365 negative.


1. Know there is a god (Exodus 20:2)

2. Do not entertain thoughts of other gods besides him (Exodus 20:3)

3. Know that he is One (Deuteronomy 6:4)

4. Love him (Deuteronomy 6:5)

5. Fear him (Deuteronomy 10:20)

6. Sanctify his name (Leviticus 22:32)

7. Do not profane his name (Leviticus 22:32)

8. Do not destroy objects associated with his name (Deuteronomy 12:4)

9. Listen to a Prophet who is speaking in his name (Deuteronomy 18:15)

10. Do not test a Prophet unduly (Deuteronomy 6:16)

11. Emulate his ways (Deuteronomy 28:9)

12. Cleave to those who know him (Deuteronomy 10:20)

13. Love other Jews (Leviticus 19:18)

14. Love converts (Deuteronomy 10:19)

15. Do not hate fellow Jews (Leviticus 19:17)

16. Reprove wrongdoers (Leviticus 19:17)

17. Do not embarrass others (Leviticus 19:17)

18. Do not oppress the weak (Exodus 22:21)

19. Do not gossip about others (Leviticus 19:16)

20. Do not seek or take revenge (Leviticus 19:18)

21. Do not bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18)

22. Learn Torah and teach it (Deuteronomy 6:7)

23. Honour those who teach and know Torah (Leviticus 19:32)

24. Do not enquire into idolatry (Leviticus 19:4)

25. Do not follow the whims of your heart or what your eyes see (Numbers 15:39)

26. Do not blaspheme (Exodus 22:27)

27. Do not worship idols in the manner they are worshipped (Exodus 20:5)

28. Do not bow down to idols (Exodus 20:5)

29. Do not make an idol for yourself (Exodus 20:4)

30. Do not make an idol for others (Leviticus 19:4)

31. Do not make human forms, even for decorative purposes (Exodus 20:20)

32. Do not turn a city to idolatry (Exodus 23:13)

33. Burn a city that has turned to idol worship (Deuteronomy 13:17)

34. Do not rebuild it as a city (Deuteronomy 13:17)

35. Do not seek to derive benefit from it (Deuteronomy 13:18)

36. Do not proselytise an individual to idol worship (Deuteronomy 13:12)

37. Do not love the proselytiser (Deuteronomy 13:9)

38. Do not cease hating the proselytiser (Deuteronomy 13:9)

39. Do not save the proselytiser (Deuteronomy 13:9)

40. Do not say anything in his defense (Deuteronomy 13:9)

41. Do not refrain from incriminating him (Deuteronomy 13:9)

42. Do not prophesy in the name of idolatry (Deuteronomy 18:20)

43. Do not listen to a false prophet (Deuteronomy 13:4)

44. Do not prophesy falsely in the name of the Hebrew god (Deuteronomy 18:20)

45. Do not be afraid of killing the false prophet (Deuteronomy 18:22)

46. Do not swear in the name of an idol (Exodus 23:13)

47. Do not act as a Ba'alat Ov (medium) (Leviticus 19:31)

48. Do not act as a Yidoni (magical seer) (Leviticus 19:31)

49. Do not pass your children through the fire to Moloch (Leviticus 18:21)

50. Do not erect a column (Tsi'un) in a public place of worship (Deuteronomy 16:22)

51. Do not bow down on smooth stone (Leviticus 26:1)

52. Do not plant a tree in the Temple courtyard (Deuteronomy 16:21)

53. Destroy all idols and their accessories (Deuteronomy 12:2)

54. Do not seek to derive benefit from idols and their accessories (Deuteronomy 7:26)

55. Do not seek to derive benefit from the ornaments of idols (Deuteronomy 7:25)

56. Do not make a covenant with idolaters (Deuteronomy 7:2)

57. Do not show favour to them (Deuteronomy 7:2)

58. Do not let them dwell in the land (Exodus 23:33)

59. Do not imitate them in customs and clothing (Leviticus 20:23)

60. Do not follow superstitions (Leviticus 19:26)

61. Do not go into a trance to foresee events, or for any other purpose (Deuteronomy 18:10)

62. Do not engage in astrology (Leviticus 19:26)

63. Do not mutter incantations (Deuteronomy 18:11)

64. Do not attempt to engage the dead in conversation (Deuteronomy 18:11)

65. Do not consult a Ba'alat Ov (Deuteronomy 18:11)

66. Do not consult a Yidoni (Deuteronomy 18:11)

67. Do not perform acts of magic (Deuteronomy 18:10)

68. Men may not shave the hair off the sides of their head (Leviticus 19:27)

69. Men may not shave their beards with a razor (Leviticus 19:27)

70. Men may not wear women's clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5)

71. Women may not wear men's clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5)

72. Do not tattoo the skin (Leviticus 19:28)

73. Do not tear the skin in mourning (Deuteronomy 14:1)

74. Do not make a bald spot in mourning (Deuteronomy 14:1)

75. Repent and confess wrongdoings (Numbers 5:7)

76. Say the Shema twice daily (Deuteronomy 6:7)

77. Serve the Hebrew god with prayer daily (Exodus 23:25)

78. The Kohanim must bless the Hebrew nation daily (Numbers 6:23)

79. Wear tefillin on the head (Deuteronomy 6:8)

80. Bind tefillin on the arm (Deuteronomy 6:8)

81. Put a mezuzah on each door post (Deuteronomy 6:9)

82. Write a Sefer Torah (Deuteronomy 31:19)

83. The king must have a separate Sefer Torah for himself (Deuteronomy 17:18)

84. Have tzitzit on four-cornered garments (Numbers 15:38)

85. Bless the Hebrew god after eating (Deuteronomy 8:10)

86. Circumcise all males on the eighth day after their birth (Leviticus 12:3)

87. Rest on the seventh day (Exodus 23:12)

88. Do not undertake prohibited labour on the seventh day (Exodus 20:10)

89. The court may not inflict punishment on Shabat (Exodus 35:3)

90. Do not walk more than 2,000 cubits outside the city boundary on Shabat (Exodus 16:29)

91. Sanctify the Sabbath day with Kiddush and Havdalah (Exodus 20:8)

92. Rest from prohibited labour on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:32)

93. Do not undertake prohibited labour on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:31)

94. Afflict yourself on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 16:29)

95. Do not eat or drink on Yom Kippur (Leviticus 23:29)

96. Rest on the first day of Passover (Leviticus 23:8)

97. Do not undertake prohibited labour on the first day of Passover (Leviticus 23:8)

98. Rest on the seventh day of Passover (Leviticus 23:8)

99. Do not undertake prohibited labour on the seventh day of Passover (Leviticus 23:8)

100. Rest on Shavu'ot (Leviticus 23:21)

101. Do not undertake prohibited labour on Shavu'ot (Leviticus 23:21)

102. Rest on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:24)

103. Do not undertake prohibited labour on Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:25)

104. Rest on Sukot (Leviticus 23:35)

105. Do not undertake prohibited labour on Sukot (Leviticus 23:35)

106. Rest on Shemini Atzeret (Leviticus 23:36)

107. Do not undertake prohibited labour on Shemini Atzeret (Leviticus 23:36)

108. Do not eat chamets on the afternoon of the 14th day of Nisan (Deuteronomy 16:3)

109. Destroy all chamets on the 14th day of Nisan (Exodus 12:15)

110. Do not eat chamets on any of the seven days of Passover (Exodus 13:3)

111. Do not eat mixtures containing chamets on any of the seven days of Passover (Exodus 12:20)

112. Chamets should not be seen in your domain during the seven days of Passover (Exodus 13:7)

113. Chamets should not be found in your domain during the seven days of Passover (Exodus 12:19)

114. Eat matzah on the first night of Passover (Exodus 12:18)

115. Tell the story of the Exodus from Mitsrayim on that night (Exodus 13:8)

116. Hear the shofar on the first day of Tishrey (Rosh Ha Shana) (Numbers 29:1)

117. Dwell in a sukah for the seven days of Sukot (Leviticus 23:42)

118. Take up a lulav and etrog on all seven days of Sukot (Leviticus 23:40)

119. Each man must give a half shekel annually (Exodus 30:13)

120. Courts must calculate and determine when a new month begins (Exodus 12:2)

121. Afflict yourselves and cry out before the Hebrew god in times of catastrophe (Numbers 10:9)

122. Marry a wife by the means prescribed in the Torah (kiddushin) (Deuteronomy 24:1)

123. Do not have relations with women not thus married (Deuteronomy 23:18)

124. Do not withhold food, clothing, and sexual relations from your wife (Exodus 21:10)

125. Have children with your wife (Genesis 1:28)

126. Issue a divorce by means of a "get" (Deuteronomy 24:1)

127. A man may not remarry his wife after she has married someone else (Deuteronomy 24:4)

128. Perform yibum (marry a childless brother's widow) (Deuteronomy 25:5)

129. Perform chalitsah (freeing a widow from yibum) (Deuteronomy 25:9)

130. A widow may not remarry until the ties with her brother-in-law are removed (Deuteronomy 25:5)

131. The court must fine a man who seduces a virgin (Exodus 22:15-16)

132. The rapist must marry the virgin (Deuteronomy 22:29)

133. He is not permitted to divorce her (Deuteronomy 22:29)

134. The slanderer must remain married to the wife he slandered (Deuteronomy 22:19)

135. He is not permitted to divorce her (Deuteronomy 22:19)

136. Fulfill the laws of the woman suspected of adultery (Sotah) (Numbers 5:30)

137. Do not put oil on her Meal Offering (Numbers 5:15)

138. Do not put frankincense on her Meal Offering (Numbers 5:15)

139. Do not have sexual relations with your mother (Leviticus 18:7)

140. Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife (Leviticus 18:8)

141. Do not have sexual relations with your sister (Leviticus 18:9)

142. Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife's daughter (if she is your father's child) (Leviticus 18:11)

143. Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

144. Do not have sexual relations with your daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

145. Do not have sexual relations with your daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:10)

146. Do not marry a woman and her daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

147. Do not marry a woman and her son's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

148. Do not have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter's daughter (Leviticus 18:17)

149. Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister (Leviticus 18:12)

150. Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister (Leviticus 18:13)

151. Do not have sexual relations with your father's brother's wife (Leviticus 18:14)

152. Do not have sexual relations with your son's wife (Leviticus 18:15)

153. Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife (Leviticus 18:16)

154. Do not have sexual relations with your wife's sister (Leviticus 18:18)

155. A man may not have sexual relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

156. A woman may not have sexual relations with a beast (Leviticus 18:23)

157. Do not engage in homosexual sexual relations (Leviticus 18:22)

158. Do not engage in homosexual sexual relations with your father (Leviticus 18:7)

159. Do not engage in homosexual sexual relations with your father's brother (Leviticus 18:14)

160. Do not have sexual relations with a married woman (Leviticus 18:20)

161. Do not have sexual relations with a menstrually impure woman (Leviticus 18:19)

162. Do not marry non-Hebrews (Deuteronomy 7:3)

163. Do not permit Mo'abite and Ammonite males to marry into the Beney Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 23:4)

164. Do not prevent a third generation Beney Mitsri convert from marrying into the Beney Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

165. Do not refrain from marrying a third generation Edomite convert (Deuteronomy 23:8-9)

166. Do not permit a mamzer ("bastard") to marry into the Beney Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 23:3)

167. Do not permit a eunuch to marry into the Beney Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 23:2)

168. Do not castrate any male (including animals) (Leviticus 22:24)

169. The High Priest may not marry a widow (Leviticus 21:14)

170. The High Priest may not have sexual relations with a widow even outside of marriage (Leviticus 21:14)

171. The High Priest must marry a virgin maiden (Leviticus 21:13)

172. A Kohen may not marry a divorcee (Leviticus 21:7)

173. A Kohen may not marry a zonah (a woman who has had forbidden relations) (Leviticus 21:7)

174. A Kohen may not marry a chalalah (a party to or product of laws 169-172) (Leviticus 21:7)

175. Do not make pleasurable [sexual] contact with any forbidden woman (Leviticus 18:6)

176. Examine the signs of animals to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher (Leviticus 11:2)

177. Examine the signs of fowl to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher (Deuteronomy 14:11)

178. Examine the signs of fish to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher (Leviticus 11:9)

179. Examine the signs of locusts to distinguish between kosher and non-kosher (Leviticus 11:21)

180. Do not eat non-kosher animals (Leviticus 11:4)

181. Do not eat non-kosher fowl (Leviticus 11:13)

182. Do not eat non-kosher fish (Leviticus 11:11)

183. Do not eat non-kosher flying insects (Deuteronomy 14:19)

184. Do not eat non-kosher creatures that crawl on land (Leviticus 11:41)

185. Do not eat non-kosher maggots (Leviticus 11:44)

186. Do not eat worms found in fruit once they have left the fruit (Leviticus 11:42)

187. Do not eat creatures that live in water other than fish (Leviticus 11:43)

188. Do not eat the meat of an animal that died without ritual slaughter (Deuteronomy 14:21)

189. Do not seek to benefit from a beast condemned to be stoned (Exodus 21:28)

190. Do not eat the meat of an animal that was mortally wounded (Exodus 22:30)

191. Do not eat a limb torn off a living creature (Deuteronomy 12:23)

192. Do not consume blood (Leviticus 3:17)

193. Do not eat certain fats of kosher animals (Leviticus 3:17)

194. Do not eat the sinew of the thigh (Genesis 32:33)

195. Do not to eat meat and milk cooked together (Exodus 23:19)

196. Do not cook a kid in its mother's milk (Exodus 34:26)

197. Do not eat bread from new grain before the Omer (Leviticus 23:14)

198. Do not eat parched grains from new grain before the Omer (Leviticus 23:14)

199. Do not eat ripened grains from new grain before the Omer (Leviticus 23:14)

200. Do not eat the fruit from a tree during its first three years (Leviticus 19:23)

201. Do not eat diverse seeds planted in a vineyard (Deuteronomy 22:9)

202. Do not eat untithed fruits (Leviticus 22:15)

203. Do not drink wine poured in service to idols (Deuteronomy 32:38)

204. Ritually slaughter an animal before eating it (Deuteronomy 12:21)

205. Do not slaughter an animal and its offspring on the same day (Leviticus 22:28)

206. Cover the blood (of a slaughtered beast or fowl) with earth (Leviticus 17:13)

207. Do not take the mother bird from her children (Deuteronomy 22:6)

208. Release the mother bird before taking the children (Deuteronomy 22:7)

209. Do not swear falsely in the name of the Hebrew god (Leviticus 19:12)

210. Do not take the name of the Hebrew god in vain (Exodus 20:7)

211. Do not deny possession of something entrusted to you (Leviticus 19:11)

212. Do not swear falsely in denial of a monetary claim (Leviticus 19:11)

213. Swear in the name of the Hebrew god, to confirm the truth when deemed necessary by a court (Deuteronomy 10:20)

214. Fulfill what was uttered and to do what was avowed (Deuteronomy 23:24)

215. Do not break oaths, vows or pledges (Numbers 30:3)

216. For oaths and vows annulled, follow the laws of annulling vows explicit in the Torah (Numbers 30:3)

217. The Nazir must let his hair grow (Numbers 6:5)

218. He may not cut his hair (Numbers 6:5)

219. He may not drink wine, wine mixtures, or wine vinegar (Numbers 6:3)

220. He may not eat fresh grapes (Numbers 6:3)

221. He may not eat raisins (Numbers 6:3)

222. He may not eat grape seeds (Numbers 6:4)

223. He may not eat grape skins (Numbers 6:4)

224. He may not be under the same roof as a corpse (Numbers 6:6)

225. He may not come into contact with the dead (Numbers 6:7)

226. He must shave after bringing sacrifices upon completion of his Nazirite period (Numbers 6:18)

227. Estimate the value of people (when someone pledges a person's worth) as determined by the Torah (Leviticus 27:2)

228. Estimate the value of consecrated animals (Leviticus 27:12-13)

229. Estimate the value of consecrated houses (Leviticus 27:14)

230. Estimate the value of consecrated fields (Leviticus 27:16)

231. Carry out the laws of interdicting possessions (cherem) (Leviticus 27:28)

232. Do not sell the cherem (Leviticus 27:28)

233. Do not redeem the cherem (Leviticus 27:28)

234. Do not plant diverse seeds together (Leviticus 19:19)

235. Do not plant grains or greens in a vineyard (Deuteronomy 22:9)

236. Do not crossbreed animals (Leviticus 19:19)

237. Do not work different animals together (Deuteronomy 22:10)

238. Do not wear shatnes (cloth woven of wool and linen) (Deuteronomy 22:11)

239. Leave a corner of the field unharvested for the poor (Leviticus 19:10)

240. Do not reap that corner (Leviticus 19:9)

241. Leave gleanings for the poor (Leviticus 19:9)

242. Do not gather the gleanings (Leviticus 19:9)

243. Leave the gleanings of a vineyard (Leviticus 19:10)

244. Do not gather the gleanings of a vineyard (Leviticus 19:10)

245. Leave the unformed clusters of grapes for the poor (Leviticus 19:10)

246. Do not pick the unformed clusters of grapes (Leviticus 19:10)

247. Leave the forgotten sheaves in the field for the poor (Deuteronomy 24:19)

248. Do not retrieve them (Deuteronomy 24:19)

249. Separate the tithe for the poor (Deuteronomy 14:28)

250. Give charity (Deuteronomy 15:11)

251. Do not withhold charity from the poor (Deuteronomy 15:7)

252. Set aside the Terumah Gedolah (tithe for the Kohen) (Deuteronomy 18:4)

253. Every Beney Levi must set aside a tenth of his tithe for the Kohen (Numbers 18:26)

254. Do not improperly preface one tithe to the next, but separate them in their proper order (Exodus 22:28)

255. A non-Kohen may not eat terumah (Leviticus 22:10)

256. A hired worker or the Hebrew bondsman of a Kohen may not eat terumah (Leviticus 22:10)

257. An uncircumcised Kohen may not eat terumah (Exodus 12:48)

258. An impure Kohen may not eat terumah (Leviticus 22:4)

259. A chalalah [see Mitzvah 174] may not eat terumah (Leviticus 22:12)

260. Set aside ma'aser (tithe) each planting year and give it to a Beney Levi (Numbers 18:24)

261. Set aside the Second Tithe (which is to be eaten in Yerushalayim) (Deuteronomy 14:22)

262. Do not to spend its redemption money on anything but food, drink, or ointment (Deuteronomy 26:14)

263. Do not eat the Second Tithe while impure (Deuteronomy 26:14)

264. A mourner on the first day after death may not eat the Second Tithe (Deuteronomy 26:14)

265. Do not eat Second Tithe grains outside Yerushalayim (Deuteronomy 12:17)

266. Do not eat Second Tithe wine products outside Yerushalayim (Deuteronomy 12:17)

267. Do not consume Second Tithe oil outside Yerushalayim (Deuteronomy 12:17)

268. Fourth-year crops are exclusively for holy purposes, in the same manner as the Second Tithe (Leviticus 19:24)

269. Read the confession of tithes every fourth and seventh year (Deuteronomy 26:13)

270. Set aside the first fruits and bring them to the Temple (Exodus 23:19)

271. Kohanim may not eat the first fruits outside Yerushalayim (Deuteronomy 12:17)

272. Read the Torah portion pertaining to their presentation (Deuteronomy 26:5)

273. Set aside a portion of dough for a Kohen (Numbers 15:20)

274. Give the shoulder, the two cheeks, and the stomach of slaughtered animals to a Kohen (Deuteronomy 18:3)

275. Give the first shearing of sheep to a Kohen (Deuteronomy 18:4)

276. Redeem firstborn sons and give the money to a Kohen (Numbers 18:15)

277. Redeem a firstborn donkey by giving a lamb to a Kohen (Exodus 13:13)

278. Break the neck of the donkey if the owner does not intend to redeem it (Exodus 13:13)

279. Rest the land during the seventh year by not undertaking any work which enhances growth (Exodus 34:21)

280. Do not work the land during the seventh year (Leviticus 25:4)

281. Do not work with trees to produce fruit during that year (Leviticus 25:4)

282. Do not reap crops that grow wild that year in the normal manner (Leviticus 25:5)

283. Do not gather grapes which grow wild that year in the normal manner (Leviticus 25:5)

284. Leave free all produce which grew in that year (Exodus 23:11)

285. Release all loans during the seventh year (Deuteronomy 15:3)

286. Do not pressure or claim from the borrower (Deuteronomy 15:2)

287. Do not refrain, for fear of monetary loss, from lending immediately before the release of the loans (Deuteronomy 15:9)

288. The Sanhedrin must count seven groups of seven years (Leviticus 25:8)

289. The Sanhedrin must sanctify the fiftieth (Jubilee) year (Leviticus 25:10)

290. Blow the shofar on the tenth of Tishrey (Yom Kippur of the Jubilee year) to free the slaves (Leviticus 25:9)

291. Do not work the soil during the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:11)

292. Do not reap in the normal manner that which grows wild in the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:11)

293. Do not pick grapes which grew wild in the normal manner in the fiftieth year (Leviticus 25:11)

294. Carry out the laws of sold family properties (Leviticus 25:24)

295. Do not sell the land in Yisra-El indefinitely (Leviticus 25:23)

296. Carry out the laws of houses in walled cities (Leviticus 25:29)

297. The Beney Levi may not be given a portion of the land in Yisra-El; rather they are given cities to dwell in (Deuteronomy 18:2)

298. The Beney Levi may not take a share in the spoils of war (Deuteronomy 18:1)

299. Give the Beney Levi cities to inhabit, and their surrounding fields (Numbers 35:2)

300. Do not sell these fields; they shall remain the property of the Beney Levi before and after the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:34)

301. Build a Sanctuary (Temple) (Exodus 25:8)

302. Do not build the altar with stones hewn by metal (Exodus 20:22)

303. Do not erect steps up to the altar (Exodus 20:23)

304. Show reverence for the Temple (Leviticus 19:30)

305. Guard the Temple area (Numbers 18:3)

306. Do not leave the Temple unguarded (Numbers 18:5)

307. Prepare the anointing oil (Exodus 30:31)

308. Do not manufacture the anointing oil for personal use (Exodus 30:32)

309. Do not anoint a non-Kohen or non-king with anointing oil (Exodus 30:32)

310. Do not reproduce the incense formula for personal use (Exodus 30:37)

311. Do not burn anything on the Golden Altar besides incense (Exodus 30:9)

312. The Beney Levi must transport the ark on their shoulders (Numbers 7:9)

313. Do not remove the staves from the ark (Exodus 25:15)

314. The Beney Levi must work in the Temple (Numbers 18:23)

315. No Beney Levi may do the work of either a Kohen or another Beney Levi (Numbers 18:3)

316. Dedicate the Kohen for service (Leviticus 21:8)

317. The work-shifts of the Kohanim must be equal during festivals (Deuteronomy 18:6-8)

318. The Kohanim must wear their priestly garments during service (Exodus 28:2)

319. Do not tear the priestly garments (Exodus 28:32)

320. The High Priest's breastplate must not be loosened from the ephod (priestly apron) (Exodus 28:28)

321. A Kohen may not enter the Temple intoxicated (Leviticus 10:9)

322. A Kohen may not enter the Temple with long hair (Leviticus 10:6)

323. A Kohen may not enter the Temple with torn clothes (Leviticus 10:6)

324. A Kohen may not enter the sanctuary of the Temple indiscriminately (Leviticus 16:2)

325. A Kohen may not leave the Temple during service (Leviticus 10:7)

326. Send the impure from the Temple (Numbers 5:2)

327. Impure people may not enter the Temple (Numbers 5:3)

328. Impure people may not enter the Temple Mount area (Deuteronomy 23:11)

329. Impure Kohanim may not do service in the Temple (Leviticus 22:2)

330. An impure Kohen, following immersion, must wait until after sundown before returning to service (Leviticus 21:6)

331. A Kohen must wash his hands and feet before service (Exodus 30:19)

332. A Kohen with a physical blemish may not enter the Sanctuary or approach the altar (Leviticus 21:23)

333. A Kohen with a physical blemish may not serve (Leviticus 21:17)

334. A Kohen with a temporary blemish may not serve (Leviticus 21:18)

335. One who is not a Kohen may not serve (Numbers 18:4)

336. Offer only unblemished animals (Leviticus 22:21)

337. Do not dedicate a blemished animal for the altar (Leviticus 22:20)

338. Do not slaughter it (Leviticus 22:22)

339. Do not sprinkle its blood (Leviticus 22:24)

340. Do not burn its fat (Leviticus 22:22)

341. Do not offer a temporarily blemished animal (Deuteronomy 17:1)

342. Do not sacrifice blemished animals, even if offered by non-Hebrews (Leviticus 22:25)

343. Do not inflict wounds upon dedicated animals (Leviticus 22:21)

344. Redeem dedicated animals which have become disqualified (Deuteronomy 12:15)

345. Offer only animals which are at least eight days old (Leviticus 22:27)

346. Do not offer animals bought with the wages of a harlot, or the animal exchanged for a dog (Deuteronomy 23:19)

347. Do not burn honey or yeast on the altar (Leviticus 2:11)

348. Salt all sacrifices (Leviticus 2:13)

349. Do not omit the salt from sacrifices (Leviticus 2:13)

350. Carry out the procedure of the burnt offering as prescribed in the Torah (Leviticus 1:3)

351. Do not eat its meat (Deuteronomy 12:17)

352. Carry out the procedure of the sin offering (Leviticus 6:18)

353. Do not eat the meat of the inner sin offering (Leviticus 6:23)

354. Do not decapitate a fowl brought as a sin offering (Leviticus 5:8)

355. Carry out the procedure of the guilt offering (Leviticus 7:1)

356. The Kohanim must eat the sacrificial meat in the Temple (Exodus 29:33)

357. The Kohanim may not eat the meat outside the Temple courtyard (Deuteronomy 12:17)

358. A non-Kohen may not eat [certain] sacrificial meats (Exodus 29:33)

359. Follow the procedure of the peace offering (Leviticus 7:11)

360. Do not eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood (Deuteronomy 12:17)

361. Bring meal offerings as prescribed in the Torah (Leviticus 2:1)

362. Do not put oil on the meal offerings of wrongdoers (Leviticus 5:11)

363. Do not put frankincense on the meal offerings of wrongdoers (Leviticus 5:11)

364. The meal offering of a Priest may not be eaten (Leviticus 6:16)

365. Do not bake a meal offering as leavened bread (Leviticus 6:10)

366. The burnt offering is to remain on the altar hearth throughout the night, until the morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar.  (Leviticus 6:9)

367. Bring all avowed and freewill offerings to the Temple on the first subsequent festival (Deuteronomy 12:5-6)

368. Do not withhold payment incurred by any vow (Deuteronomy 23:22)

369. Offer all sacrifices in the Temple (Deuteronomy 12:11)

370. Bring all sacrifices from outside Yisra-El to the Temple (Deuteronomy 12:26)

371. Do not slaughter sacrifices outside the courtyard (Leviticus 17:4)

372. Do not offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard (Deuteronomy 12:13)

373. Offer two lambs every day (Numbers 28:3)

374. Light a fire on the altar every day (Leviticus 6:5)

375. Do not extinguish this fire (Leviticus 6:5)

376. Remove the ashes from the altar every day (Leviticus 6:3)

377. Burn incense every day (Exodus 30:7)

378. Light the Menorah every day (Exodus 27:21)

379. The High Priest must bring a meal offering every day (Leviticus 6:13)

380. Bring two additional lambs as burnt offerings on Shabat (Numbers 28:9)

381. Make the show bread (Exodus 25:30)

382. Bring additional offerings on the New Month (Rosh Chodesh) (Numbers 28:11)

383. Bring additional offerings on Passover (Numbers 28:19)

384. Offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat (on the 2nd day of Passover) (Leviticus 23:10)

385. Each man must count the Omer, for seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought (Leviticus 23:15)

386. Bring additional offerings on Shavu'ot (Numbers 28:26)

387. Bring two loaves to accompany the above sacrifice (Leviticus 23:18)

388. Bring additional offerings on Rosh Ha Shana (Numbers 29:2)

389. Bring additional offerings on Yom Kippur (Numbers 29:8)

390. Bring additional offerings on Sukot (Numbers 29:13)

391. Bring additional offerings on Shemini Atseret (Numbers 29:35)

392. Do not eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished (Deuteronomy 14:3)

393. Do not eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions (Leviticus 7:18)

394. Do not leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them (Leviticus 22:30)

395. Do not eat from that which was left over (Leviticus 19:8)

396. Do not eat from sacrifices which became impure (Leviticus 7:19)

397. An impure person may not eat from sacrifices (Leviticus 7:20)

398. Burn the leftover sacrifices (Leviticus 7:17)

399. Burn all impure sacrifices (Leviticus 7:19)

400. Follow the procedure of Yom Kippur in the sequence prescribed in the Torah (Leviticus 16:3)

401. One who has profaned holy property must repay what he profaned, plus one-fifth, and bring a sacrifice (Leviticus 5:16)

402. Do not work consecrated animals (Deuteronomy 15:19)

403. Do not shear the fleece of consecrated animals (Deuteronomy 15:19)

404. Slaughter the Paschal sacrifice at the specified time (Exodus 12:6)

405. Do not slaughter it while in possession of leaven (Exodus 23:18)

406. Do not leave the fat overnight (Exodus 23:18)

407. Slaughter the second Paschal Lamb (Numbers 9:11)

408. Eat the Paschal Lamb with matzah and maror, on the night of the 15th of Nisan (Exodus 12:8)

409. Eat the second Paschal Lamb on the night of the 15th of Iyar (Numbers 9:11)

410. Do not eat the Paschal meat raw or boiled (Exodus 12:9)

411. Do not take the Paschal meat from the confines of its group (Exodus 12:46)

412. An apostate may not eat from it (Exodus 12:43)

413. A permanent or temporary hired worker may not eat from it (Exodus 12:45)

414. An uncircumcised male may not eat from it (Exodus 12:48)

415. Do not break any bones from the Paschal offering (Exodus 12:46)

416. Do not break any bones from the second Paschal offering (Numbers 9:12)

417. Do not leave any meat from the Paschal offering until morning (Exodus 12:10)

418. Do not leave the second Paschal meat until morning (Numbers 9:12)

419. Do not leave the meat of the holiday offering of the 14th until the 16th (Deuteronomy 16:4)

420. Present yourself at the Temple on Passover, Shavu'ot, and Sukot (Deuteronomy 16:16)

421. Celebrate on these three Festivals (by bringing a offering) (Exodus 23:14)

422. Rejoice on these three Festivals (Deuteronomy 16:14)

423. Do not appear at the Temple without offerings (Deuteronomy 16:16)

424. Do not refrain from rejoicing with, and giving gifts to, the Beney Levi (Deuteronomy 12:19)

425. Assemble all the people on the Sukot following the seventh year for the public reading of the Torah (Deuteronomy 31:12)

426. Set aside the firstborn animals [to be eaten by the Kohanim, and sacrificed unless they are blemished] (Exodus 13:12)

427. The Kohanim may not eat unblemished firstborn animals outside Yerushalayim (Deuteronomy 12:17)

428. Do not redeem the firstborn (Numbers 18:17)

429. Separate the tithe from animals [to be eaten by the Kohanim, and sacrificed unless they are blemished] (Leviticus 27:32)

430. Do not redeem the tithe (Leviticus 27:33)

431. Every person must bring a sin offering for his transgression (Leviticus 4:27)

432. Bring an asham talu'i offering when uncertain of guilt (Leviticus 5:17-18)

433. Bring an asham vadai offering [for certain sins] when guilt is ascertained (Leviticus 5:25)

434. Bring an oleh ve yored offering (if the person is wealthy, an animal; if poor, a bird or meal offering) [for certain sins] (Leviticus 5:7-11)

435. The Sanhedrin must bring an offering when it rules in error (Leviticus 4:13)

436. A woman who has had a running issue must bring an offering after she goes to the mikveh (Leviticus 15:28-29)

437. A woman who has given birth must bring an offering after she goes to the mikveh (Leviticus 12:6)

438. A man who has had a running issue must bring an offering after he goes to the mikveh (Leviticus 15:13-14)

439. A metsora ("leprous" person) must bring an offering after going to the mikveh (Leviticus 14:10)

440. Do not substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice (Leviticus 27:10)

441. The new animal, in addition to the substituted one, remains consecrated (Leviticus 27:10)

442. Do not change consecrated animals from one type of offering to another (Leviticus 27:26)

443. Carry out the laws of impurity of the dead (Numbers 19:14)

444. Carry out the procedure of the Red Heifer (Numbers 19:9)

445. Carry out the laws of the sprinkling of water [of the Red Heifer] (Numbers 19:21)

446. Carry out the laws of human tsara'at (Leprosy, see Mitzvah 439) as prescribed in the Torah (Leviticus 13:12)

447. The metsora (leper) may not remove the signs of his impurity (Deuteronomy 24:8)

448. The metsora may not shave the signs of impurity in his hair (Leviticus 13:33)

449. The metsora must publicise his condition by tearing his garments, allowing his hair to grow, and covering his mustache (Leviticus 13:45)

450. Carry out the prescribed rules for purifying the metsora (Leviticus 14:2)

451. The metsora must shave off all his hair prior to purification (Leviticus 14:9)

452. Carry out the laws of "leprous" clothing (Leviticus 13:47)

453. Carry out the laws of leprous houses (Leviticus 14:35)

454. Observe the laws of menstrual impurity (Leviticus 15:19)

455. Observe the laws of impurity caused by childbirth (Leviticus 12:2)

456. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a woman's running issue (Leviticus 15:25)

457. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a man's running issue (irregular ejaculation of infected semen) (Leviticus 15:3)

458. Observe the laws of impurity caused by a dead beast (Leviticus 11:39)

459. Observe the laws of impurity caused by the eight sheratsim (rodents, amphibious creatures, and lizards) [specified in the Torah] (Leviticus 11:29)

460. Observe the laws of impurity of a seminal emission (regular ejaculation, with normal semen) (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 mikveh to become pure (Leviticus 15:16)

463. The court must judge the damages incurred by a goring beast (Exodus 21:28)

464. The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating (Exodus 22:4)

465. The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit (Exodus 21:33)

466. The court must judge the damages incurred by fire (Exodus 22:5)

467. Do not steal money by stealth (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. Do not commit injustice with scales and weights (Leviticus 19:35)

471. Do not possess inaccurate scales and weights, even if they are not for use (Deuteronomy 25:13)

472. Do not move a boundary marker to steal someone's property (Deuteronomy 19:14)

473. Do not kidnap (Exodus 20:13)

474. Do not rob (Leviticus 19:13)

475. Do not withhold wages or fail to repay a debt (Leviticus 19:13)

476. Do not covet and scheme to acquire another's possession (Exodus 20:14)

477. Do not desire another's possession (Deuteronomy 5:18)

478. Return the robbed object or its value (Leviticus 5:23)

479. Do not ignore a lost object (Deuteronomy 22:3)

480. Return the lost object (Deuteronomy 22:1)

481. The court must implement laws against the one who assaults another or damages another's property (Exodus 21:18)

482. Do not murder (Exodus 20:13)

483. Do not accept monetary restitution to atone for the murderer (Numbers 35:31)

484. The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge (Numbers 35:25)

485. Do not accept monetary restitution instead of being sent to a city of refuge (Numbers 35:32)

486. Do not kill the murderer before he stands trial (Numbers 35:12)

487. Save someone being pursued, even by taking the life of the pursuer (Deuteronomy 25:12)

488. Do not pity the pursuer (Numbers 35:12)

489. Do not stand idly by if someone's life is in danger (Leviticus 19:16)

490. Designate cities of refuge and prepare routes of access (Deuteronomy 19:3)

491. Break the neck of a calf by a stream following an unsolved murder (Deuteronomy 21:4)

492. Neither work nor plant that river valley (Deuteronomy 21:4)

493. Do not allow pitfalls and obstacles to remain on your property (Deuteronomy 22:8)

494. Make a guard rail around flat roofs (Deuteronomy 22:8)

495. Do not put a stumbling block before a blind man (nor give harmful advice) (Leviticus 19:14)

496. Help another remove the load from a beast which can no longer carry it (Exodus 23:5)

497. Help others load their beast (Deuteronomy 22:4)

498. Do not leave others distraught with their burdens (but help either to load or to unload) (Deuteronomy 22:4)

499. Buy and sell according to Torah law (Leviticus 25:14)

500. Do not overcharge or underpay for an article (Leviticus 25:14)

501. Do not insult or harm anybody with words (Leviticus 25:17)

502. Do not cheat a sincere convert monetarily (Exodus 22:20)

503. Do not insult or harm a sincere convert with words (Exodus 22:20)

504. Purchase a Hebrew slave in accordance with the prescribed laws (Exodus 21:2)

505. Do not sell him as a slave is sold (Leviticus 25:42)

506. Do not work him oppressively (Leviticus 25:43)

507. Do not allow a non-Hebrew to work him oppressively (Leviticus 25:53)

508. Do not have him do menial slave labor (Leviticus 25:39)

509. Give him gifts when he goes free (Deuteronomy 15:14)

510. Do not send him away empty-handed (Deuteronomy 15:13)

511. Redeem Hebrew maidservants (Exodus 21:8)

512. Betroth the Hebrew maidservant (Exodus 21:8)

513. The master may not sell his maidservant (Exodus 21:8)

514. Kena'ani slaves must work forever unless the owner amputates one of their limbs (Leviticus 25:46)

515. Do not extradite a slave who has fled to Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 23:16)

516. Do not to wrong a slave who has come to Yisra-El for refuge (Deuteronomy 23:17)

517. The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and a 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 may not eat while on hired time (Deuteronomy 23:26)

522. The worker may not take more than he can eat (Deuteronomy 23:25)

523. Do not 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 an unpaid guard (Exodus 22:6)

526. Lend to the poor and destitute (Exodus 22:24)

527. Do not press them for payment if you know they don't have it (Exodus 22:24)

528. Press the idolator for payment (Deuteronomy 15:3)

529. The creditor may not forcibly take collateral (Deuteronomy 24:10)

530. Return the collateral to the debtor when needed (Deuteronomy 24:13)

531. Do not delay its return when it is needed (Deuteronomy 24:12)

532. Do not demand collateral from a widow (Deuteronomy 24:17)

533. Do not demand as collateral utensils needed for preparing food (Deuteronomy 24:6)

534. Do not lend with interest (Leviticus 25:37)

535. Do not borrow with interest (Deuteronomy 23:20)

536. Do not intermediate in an interest loan, whether to guarantee, witness, or to write the promissory note (Exodus 22:24)

537. Lend to, and borrow from idolators with interest (Deuteronomy 23:21)

538. The courts must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter, 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. Do not appoint judges who are not familiar with judicial procedure (Deuteronomy 1:17)

542. Decide by majority in case of disagreement (Exodus 23:2)

543. [In capital cases] the court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required (Exodus 23:2)

544. A judge who has presented an acquittal plea may not present an argument for conviction in capital cases (Exodus 23:2)

545. The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24)

546. The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning (Leviticus 20:14)

547. The courts must carry out the death penalty of the sword (Exodus 21:20)

548. The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation (Leviticus 20:10)

549. The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry (Deuteronomy 21:22)

550. Bury the executed [as well as all deceased] on the day they are killed (Deuteronomy 21:23)

551. Do not delay burial overnight (Deuteronomy 21:23)

552. The court must not let the sorcerer live (Exodus 22:17)

553. The court must give lashes to 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. A judge may not pity the murderer or assaulter at the trial (Deuteronomy 19:13)

558. A judge must not have mercy on the poor man at the trial (Leviticus 19:15)

559. A judge must not respect the great man at the trial (Leviticus 19:15)

560. A judge must not decide unjustly the case of the habitual transgressor (Exodus 23:6)

561. A judge must not pervert justice (Leviticus 19:15)

562. A judge must not pervert a case involving a convert or 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. Do not curse judges (Exodus 22:27)

568. Do not curse the Head of State or the leader of the Sanhedrin (Exodus 22:27)

569. Do not curse any upstanding Jew (Leviticus 19:14)

570. Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court (Leviticus 5:1)

571. Carefully interrogate the witness (Deuteronomy 13:15)

572. A witness may not serve as a judge in capital crimes (Numbers 35:30)

573. Do not accept testimony from a lone witness (Deuteronomy 19:15)

574. Transgressors may not testify (Exodus 23:1)

575. Relatives of the litigants may not testify (Deuteronomy 24:16)

576. Do not testify falsely (Exodus 20:13)

577. Punish false witnesses with the same punishment they were seeking for the defendant (Deuteronomy 19:19)

578. Act according to the ruling of the Sanhedrin (Deuteronomy 17:11)

579. Do not deviate from the word of the Sanhedrin (Deuteronomy 17:11)

580. Do not add to the Torah commandments or their oral explanations (Deuteronomy 13:1)

581. Do not diminish from the Torah any commandments, in whole or in part (Deuteronomy 13:1)

582. Do not curse your father or mother (Exodus 21:17)

583. Do not strike your father or mother (Exodus 21:15)

584. Respect your father and mother (Exodus 20:12)

585. Fear your father and mother (Leviticus 19:3)

586. Do not be a rebellious son (Deuteronomy 21:20)

587. Mourn for relatives (Leviticus 10:19)

588. The High Priest must not defile himself through contact with a relative (Leviticus 21:11)

589. The High Priest may not enter under the same roof as a corpse (Leviticus 21:11)

590. A Kohen must not defile himself for anyone except relatives (Leviticus 21:1)

591. Appoint a king from Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 17:15)

592. Do not appoint a convert (Deuteronomy 17:15)

593. The king may not have too many wives (Deuteronomy 17:17)

594. The king may not have too many horses Deuteronomy 17:16)

595. The king may not have too much silver and gold (Deuteronomy 17:17)

596. Destroy the seven Kena'ani nations (Deuteronomy 20:17)

597. Do not let any of them remain alive (Deuteronomy 20:16)

598. Wipe out the descendants of Amalek (Deuteronomy 25:19)

599. Remember what Amalek did to the Beney Yisra-El (Deuteronomy 25:17)

600. Do not forget Amalek's atrocities and ambush on the journey from Mitsrayim in the desert (Deuteronomy 25:19)

601. Do not dwell permanently in Mitsrayim (Deuteronomy 17:16)

602. Offer peace terms to the inhabitants of a city while holding siege, and treat them according to the Torah if they accept the terms (Deuteronomy 20:10)

603. Do not to offer peace to Ammon and Mo-Av while besieging them (Deuteronomy 23:7)

604. Do not destroy fruit trees, even during a siege (Deuteronomy 20:19)

605. Prepare latrines outside the army camps (Deuteronomy 23:13)

606. Prepare a shovel for each soldier to dig with (Deuteronomy 23:14)

607. Appoint a priest to speak with the soldiers during the war (Deuteronomy 20:2)

608. He who has taken a wife, built a new home, or planted a vineyard, is given a year to rejoice with his possessions (Deuteronomy 24:5)

609. Do not demand from the above any involvement, communal or military (Deuteronomy 24:5)

610. Do not panic and retreat during battle (Deuteronomy 20:3)

611. Keep the laws of the captive woman (Deuteronomy 21:11)

612. Do not sell her into slavery (Deuteronomy 21:14)

613. Do not retain her for servitude after having relations with her (Deuteronomy 21:14)

Copyright © 2015 David Prashker

All rights reserved

The Argaman Press