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613 Commandments

Updated: Apr 7, 2023

613 Commandments by topic#


In the process of being updated. Check everything with your bible first because I'm going to leave this published, but edit it as I go along!!!





G-d

  1. To know that G-d exists (Ex. 20:2; Deut. 5:6)

  2. Not to entertain the idea that there is any god but the Eternal (Ex. 20:3)

  3. Not to blaspheme (Ex. 22:27, Ex. 22:28), the penalty for which is death (Lev. 24:16)

  4. To hallow G-d's name (Lev. 22:32)

  5. Not to profane G-d's name (Lev . 22:32)

  6. To know that G-d is One(Deut. 6:4)

  7. To love G-d (Deut. 6:5)

  8. To fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20)

  9. Not to put the word of G-d to the test (Deut. 6:16)

  10. To imitate His good and upright ways (Deut. 28:9)

Tawarah

  1. To honor the old and the wise (Lev. 19:32)

  2. To learn Tawarah and to teach it (Deut. 6:7)

  3. To cleave to those who know Him (Deut. 10:20)

  4. Not to add to the commandments of the Tawarah, whether in the Written Law or in its interpretation received by tradition (Deut. 13:1)

  5. Not to take away from the commandments of the Tawarah (Deut. 13:1)

  6. That every person shall write a scroll of the Tawarah for himself (Deut. 31:19)

Signs and Symbols

  1. To circumcise the male offspring (Gen. 17:12; Lev. 12:3)

  2. To put fringes and a ribbon of blue on the corners of clothing (Num. 15:38)

  3. To bind these words on thine hand (Deut. 6:8)

  4. To bind these words between thine eyes (Deut. 6:8)

  5. To write these words to the doorposts and gates of your house (Deut. 6:9)

Prayer and Blessings

  1. To serve G-d (Ex. 23:25; Deut. 6:13)

  2. To teach and talk to your children often (Deut. 6:7)

  3. To recite grace after meals (Deut. 8:10)

  4. Not to lay down a stone for worship (Lev. 26:1)

Love and Brotherhood

  1. To love all human beings who are of the covenant (Lev. 19:18)

  2. Not to stand by idly when a human life is in danger (Lev. 19:16)

  3. Not to wrong anyone in speech (Lev. 25:17)

  4. Not to carry tales (Lev. 19:16)

  5. Not to cherish hatred in one's heart (Lev. 19:17)

  6. Not to take revenge (Lev. 19:18)

  7. Not to bear a grudge (Lev. 19:18)

  8. Not to put any Jew to shame (Lev. 19:17)

  9. Not to curse the deaf (Lev. 19:14)

  10. Not to give occasion to the simple-minded to stumble on the road (Lev. 19:14)

  11. To rebuke the sinner (Lev. 19:17)

  12. To relieve a neighbor of his burden and help to unload his beast (Ex. 23:5)

  13. To assist in replacing the load upon a neighbor's beast (Deut. 22:4)

  14. Not to leave a beast, that has fallen down beneath its burden, unaided (Deut. 22:4)

The Poor and Unfortunate

  1. Not to afflict an orphan or a widow (Ex. 22:21)

  2. Not to reap the entire field (Lev. 19:9; Lev. 23:22)

  3. To leave the unreaped corner of the field or orchard for the poor (Lev. 19:9)

  4. Not to gather gleanings (the ears that have fallen to the ground while reaping) (Lev. 19:9)

  5. To leave the gleanings for the poor (Lev. 19:9)

  6. Not to gather the imperfect clusters of the vineyard (Lev. 19:10)

  7. To leave the imperfect clusters of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10; Deut. 24:21)

  8. Not to gather the peret (grapes) that have fallen to the ground (Lev. 19:10)

  9. To leave peret (the single grapes) of the vineyard for the poor (Lev. 19:10)

  10. Not to return to take a forgotten sheaf (Deut. 24:19) This applies to all fruit trees (Deut. 24:20)

  11. To leave the forgotten sheaves for the poor (Deut. 24:19-20)

  12. Not to refrain from maintaining a poor man and giving him what he needs (Deut. 15:7)

  13. To give charity according to one's means (Deut. 15:11)

  14. Treatment of Gentiles

  15. To love the stranger (Deut. 10:19)

  16. Not to wrong the stranger in speech (Ex. 22:20)

  17. Not to wrong the stranger in buying or selling (Ex. 22:20)

  18. Not to intermarry with gentiles (Deut. 7:3)

  19. To exact the debt of an alien (Deut. 15:3)

  20. To lend to an alien at interest (Deut. 23:21)

  21. Marriage, Divorce and Family

  22. To honor father and mother (Ex. 20:12)

  23. Not to smite a father or a mother (Ex. 21:15)

  24. Not to curse a father or mother (Ex. 21:17)

  25. To reverently fear father and mother (Lev. 19:3)

  26. To be fruitful and multiply (Gen. 1:28)

  27. That a eunuch shall not marry a daughter of Israel (Deut. 23:2)

  28. That an estranged person shall not marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deut. 23:3)

  29. That an Ammonite or Moabite shall never marry the daughter of an Israelite (Deut. 23:4)

  30. Not to exclude a descendant of Esau from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)

  31. Not to exclude an Egyptian from the community of Israel for three generations (Deut. 23:8-9)

  32. That there shall be no harlot (in Israel); that is, that there shall be no intercourse with a woman, without previous marriage with a deed of marriage and formal declaration of marriage (Deut. 23:18)

  33. To take a wife by the sacrament of marriage (Deut. 24:1)

  34. That the newly married husband shall be free for one year to rejoice with his wife (Deut. 24:5)

  35. That a bridegroom shall be exempt for a whole year from taking part in any public labor, such as military service, guarding the wall and similar duties (Deut. 24:5)

  36. Not to withhold food, clothing or conjugal rights from a wife (Ex. 21:10)

  37. That the woman suspected of adultery shall be dealt with as prescribed in the Tawarah (Num. 5:30)

  38. That one who defames his wife's honor (by falsely accusing her of unchastity before marriage) must live with her all his lifetime (Deut. 22:19)

  39. That a man may not divorce his wife concerning whom he has published an evil report (about her unchastity before marriage) (Deut. 22:19)

  40. To divorce by a formal written document (Deut. 24:1)

  41. That one who divorced his wife shall not remarry her, if after the divorce she had been married to another man (Deut. 24:4)

  42. That a widow whose husband died childlessly must not be married to anyone but her deceased husband's brother (Deut. 25:5)

  43. To marry the widow of a brother who has died childless (Deut. 25:5) (this is only in effect insofar as it requires the procedure of release below )

  44. That the widow formally release the brother-in-law (if he refuses to marry her) (Deut. 25:7-9)

  45. Forbidden Sexual Relations

  46. Not to indulge in familiarities with relatives, such as kissing, embracing, winking, skipping, which may lead to incest (Lev. 18:6)

  47. Not to commit incest with one's mother (Lev. 18:7)

  48. Not to commit sodomy with one's father (Lev. 18:7)

  49. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife (Lev. 18:8)

  50. Not to commit incest with one's sister (Lev. 18:9)

  51. Not to commit incest with one's father's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:11)

  52. Not to commit incest with one's son's daughter (Lev. 18:10)

  53. Not to commit incest with one's daughter's daughter (Lev. 18:10)

  54. Not to commit incest with one's fathers sister (Lev. 18:12)

  55. Not to commit incest with one's mother's sister (Lev. 18:13)

  56. Not to commit incest with one's father's brother's wife (Lev. 18:14)

  57. Not to commit sodomy with one's father's brother (Lev. 18:14)

  58. Not to commit incest with one's son's wife (Lev. 18:15)

  59. Not to commit incest with one's brother's wife (Lev. 18:16)

  60. Not to commit incest with one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17)

  61. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's son (Lev. 18:17)

  62. Not to commit incest with the daughter of one's wife's daughter (Lev. 18:17)

  63. Not to commit incest with one's wife's sister (Lev. 18:18)

  64. Not to have intercourse with a woman, in her menstrual period (Lev. 18:19) (CCN132).

  65. Not to have intercourse with another man's wife (Lev. 18:20) (CCN124).

  66. Not to commit sodomy with a male (Lev. 18:22)

  67. Not to have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)

  68. That a woman shall not have intercourse with a beast (Lev. 18:23)

  69. Not to castrate the male of any species; neither a man, nor a domestic or wild beast, nor a fowl (Lev. 22:24)

Times and Seasons

  1. “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.(Ex. 12:2)

  2. Not to travel on Shabbat outside the limits of one's place of residence (Ex. 16:29) (CCN7).

  3. To sanctify Shabbat (Ex. 20:8) (CCA19).

  4. Not to do work on Shabbat (Ex. 20:10) (CCN6).

  5. To rest on Shabbat (Ex. 23:12; 34:21) (CCA20).

  6. To celebrate the festivals (Ex. 23:14)

  7. To rejoice on the festivals (Deut. 16:14) (CCA21).

  8. To appear in the Sanctuary on the festivals (Deut. 16:16)

  9. To remove leaven on the Eve of Passover (Ex See Passover.

  10. To rest on the first day of Passover (Ex. 12:16; Lev. 23:7) (CCA25). See