613 COMMANDMENTS 521 - 613

THE 613 COMMANDMENTS OF JUDAISM 521 - 613 OR 273-365

JUSTICE COMMANDMENTS

273-A judge must not 273-perpetuate injustice,

LEV 19:15 (273)
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

274-accept bribes or be

EXO 23:8 (274)
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

275-partial or

LEV 19:15 (275)
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

276-afraid he may

DEU 1:17 (276)
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

277-not favor the poor or

LEV 19:15 (277)
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

EXO 23:3 (277)
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

278-discriminate against the wicked; he should not

EXO 23:6 (278)
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

279-pity the condemned or

DEU 19:13 (279)
13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

280-pervert the judgement of strangers or orphans. It is forbidden to

DEU 24:17 (280)
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

281-hear one litigant without the other being present. A capital case cannot be decided by

EXO 23:1 (281)
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

282-a majority of one. A judge should not

283-accept a colleague's opinion unless he is convinced of its correctness; it is forbidden to

EXO 23:2 (282-283)
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

284-appoint as a judge someone who is ignorant of the law. Do not

DEU 1:17 (284)
17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

285-give false testimony or accept

EXO 20:16 (285)
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

286-testimony from a wicked person or from

EXO 23:1 (286)
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

287-relatives of a person involved in the case. It is forbidden to pronounce judgement

DEU 24:16 (287)
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

288-on the basis of the testimony of one witness. Do not

DEU 19:15 (288)
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

289-murder. You must not convict on

EXO 20:13 (289)
13 Thou shalt not kill.

290-circumstancial evidence alone. A witness

EXO 23:7 (290)
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

291-must not sit as a judge in capital cases. You must not

NUM 35:30 (291)
30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

292-execute anybody without due proper trial and conviction. Do not

NUM 35:12 (292)
12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

293-pity or spare the pursuer. Punishment is not to be inflicted for

DEU 25:12 (293)
12 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

294-an act commited under duress. Do not accept ransom

DEU 22:26 (294)
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

295-for a murderer or

NUM 35:31 (295)
31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

296-a manslayer. Do not

NUM 35:32 (296)
32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

297-hesitate to save another person from danger and do not

LEV 19:16 (297)
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the LORD.

298-leave a stumbling blockin the way or

DEU 22:8 (298)
8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

299-mislead another person by giving wrong advice. It is forbidden

LEV 19:14 (299)
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

300-to administer more thanthe assigned number of lashes to the guilty. Do not

DEU 25:2-3 (300)
2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
3 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

301-tell tales or

LEV 19:16 (301)
16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor; I am the LORD.

302-bear hatred in your heart. It is forbidden to

303-shame a Jew,

LEV 19:17 (302-303)
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

304-to bear a grudge or

305-to take revenge. Do not

LEV 19:18 (304-305)
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

306-take the dam when you take young birds. It is forbidden to

DEU 22:6 (306)
6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

307-shave a leperous scall or

LEV 13:3 (307)
3 And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.

308-remove other signs of that affliction. It is forbidden

DEU 24:8 (308)
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

309-to cultivate a valley in which a slain body was foundand in which subsequently the ritual of breaking the heifer's neck ( * eglah arufah) was performed. Do not

DEU 21:4 (309)
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

310-suffer a witch to live. Do not

EXO 22:17 (310)
17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

311-force a bridegroom to perform military service during the first year of his marriage. It is forbidden to

DEU 24:5 (311)
5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

312-rebel against the transmitters of the tradition or to

DEU 17:11 (312)
11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

313-add or

314-distract from the precepts of the law. Do not curse

DEU 13:1 (314)
1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

315-a judge

316-a ruler or

EXO 22:27 (315-316)
27 For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

317-any Jew. Do not

LEV 19:14 (317)
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

318-curse or

EXO 21:17 (318)
17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

319-strike a parent. It is forbidden to

EXO 21:15 (319)
15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

320-work on the sabbath or

EXO 20:10 (320)
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

321-walk further than the permitted limits ( * eruv). You may not

EXO 16:29 (321)
29 See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

322-inflict punishment on the Sabbath. It is forbidden to work on

EXO 35:3 (322)
3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

323-the first or

324-the seventh day of * Passover, on

EXO 12:16 (323-324)
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

325-* Shavuot, on

LEV 23:21 (325)
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

326-* Rosh Ha-Shanah, on the

LEV 23:25 (326)
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

327-first and

LEV 23:35 (327)
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

328-eighth ( * Shemini Azeret) days of * Sukkot and

LEV 23:36 (328)
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

329-on the Day of * Atonement.

LEV 23:28 (329)
28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

INCEST AND OTHER FORBIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS COMMANDMENTS

330-It is forbidden to enter into an incestuous relationship with one's 330-mother,

LEV 18:7 (330)
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

331-step-mother,

LEV 18:8 (331)
8 The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's nakedness.

332-sister,

LEV 18:9 (332)
9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

333-half-sister,

LEV 18:11 (333)
11 The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

334-son's daughter,

335-daughter's daughter,

336-daughter,

LEV 18:10 (334-336)
10 The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.

337-any woman and her daughter,

338-any woman and her son's daughter,

339-any woman and her daughter's daughter,

LEV 18:17 (337-339)
17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

340-father's sister,

LEV 18:12 (340)
12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she is thy father's near kinswoman.

341-mother's sister,

LEV 18:13 (341)
13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she is thy mother's near kinswoman.

342-paternal uncles wife,

LEV 18:14 (342)
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

343-daughter in law,

LEV 18:15 (343)
15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

344-brother's wife and

LEV 18:16 (344)
16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

345-wife's sister. It is also forbidden to

LEV 18:18 (345)
18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

346-have sexual relations with a menstrous woman (see * Niddah). Do not

LEV 18:19 (346)
19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

347-commit adultery. It is forbidden for

LEV 18:20 (347)
20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

348-a man or

349-a woman to have sexual intercourse with an animal. Homosexuality

LEV 18:23 (348-349)
23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

350-is forbidden, particularly with

LEV 18:22 (350)
22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

351-one's father or

LEV 18:7 (351)
7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

352-uncle. It is forbidden to have

LEV 18:14 (352)
14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

353-intimate physical contact ( even without actual intercourse) with any of the women eith whom intercourse is forbidden. A * mamzer may not

LEV 18:6 (353)
6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

354-marry a Jewess. Harlotry

DEU 23:3 (354)
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:

355-is forbidden. A divorcee may not be

DEU 23:18 (355)
18 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

356-remarried to her first husband if, in the meanwhile, she had married another. A childless widow may not

DEU 24:4 (356)
4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

357-marry anybody other than her late husband's brother (See * Levirate Marriage). A man may not

DEU 25:5 (357)
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

358-divorce a wife whom he married after having raped her or

DEU 22:29 (358)
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

359-after having slandered her. An eunuch may not

DEU 22:19 (359)
19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

360-marry a Jewess. Castration

DEU 23:2 (360)
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

361-is forbidden.

LEV 22:24 (361)
24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

THE MONARCHY COMMANDMENTS

362-You may not 362-elect as king anybody who is not of the seed of Israel. The king must not accumulate an excessive number of

DEU 17:15 (362)
15 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

363-horses,

DEU 17:16 (363)
16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

364-wives, or

365-wealth.

DEU 17:17 (364-365)
17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.